Re: Running java programs from class files

From:

Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>

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Date:

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:34:24 -0700

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Babu Kalakrishnan wrote:

Knute Johnson wrote:

Oliver Wong wrote:

"Knute Johnson" <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote in message
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Babu Kalakrishnan wrote:

The commandline for the above example in that case would be :

java -classpath /xyz/abc MyPackage.MyClass

That doesn't work for me although I have seen reference to it before
like that. Could it be that it doesn't work on Windows like that?

   It works for me on WinXP SP2:

java -cp "D:\Oliver's Documents\Workspace\Test\bin" D

   to run a class called "D" with no package whose classfile is in
"D:\Oliver's Documents\Workspace\Test\bin"

   - Oliver

That does for me too. But put it in a package and it won't.

Interesting - Seems to work for me even with classes within a package -

Running TCPServer.class in package test :

java -classpath "C;\Documents and
Settings\Babu\workspace\TestServer\classes" test.TCPServer
Main: Listening for connections on port 2345

Testing on XP Home SP2

BK

package test;

public class Test {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         System.out.println("It works!");
     }
}

C:\>javac test/Test.java

C:\>java test.Test
It works!

C:\>cd test

C:\test>java -cp "C:\test" test.Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/Test

C:\test>java -cp /test test.Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/Test

C:\test>java test.Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/Test

C:\test>java -cp "C:/test" test.Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/Test

C:\test>cd \

C:\>java -cp "C:\test" test.Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/Test

C:\>java -cp /test test.Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/Test

C:\>java -cp test test.Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: test/Test

C:\>

What am I doing wrong here?

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Knute Johnson
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