Eclipse MapServer libmapscript.so: cannot open shared object file

[Ryan Ollerenshaw]

When trying to create a java application using eclipse i get the following
error:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: libmapscript: libmapscript.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

Here is my code:

import  edu.umn.gis.mapscript.*;
import java.io.*;

public class HelloServlet {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

	System.loadLibrary("mapscript");
	      mapObj  map;
	      imageObj image;

	      map=new mapObj("/var/www/html/mapserver/htdocs/display.map");
	      map.setProjection("init=epsg:4326");
	      image=map.draw();
	      image.save("test.png",map);
    }
}