[CentOS] Missing Java packages for java-1.6.0-openjdk under CentOS 5

Mon May 18 18:54:32 UTC 2015
Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole at gmail.com>

On 2015-05-18, Robert Heller
<heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> When I compile some Java code I am getting this sort of error:
>
> "package org.apache.http.annotation does not exist"
>
> I am presuming that I am missing a Jar file in
> /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64.

The core JAR files are placed there. Third-party ones such as those from
the Apache projects go in /usr/share/java.

>
> Most of the Jar files in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64 come from one 
> or another RPMs, most from the CentOS 5 distro RPMs.  But I cannot figure out 
> which RPM(s) I am missing.  I tried doing a web search for 
> org.apache.http.annotation with el5 and rpm, but got nothing useful.  What am 
> I missing?

Which classes are you looking for? Some classes in the
jakarta-commons-httpclient rpm package match the above Java package
name, but they might not be what you want.

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Liam