Re: How to include *.class file with package in CLASSPATH?

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:03:53 -0400
Message-ID:
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Lion-O wrote:

On 2008-04-26, Ulf Meinhardt <ulf2m@email.com> wrote:

D:\java\output\aaa\bbb\ccc\myclass.class

myclass.java contains the following package information:

package aaa.bbb.ccc;

The current path in the command prompt is

D:\java>


---<CUT

But when I enter a statement like:

javac -cp D:\java\output\aaa\bbb\ccc;%CLASSPATH% test.java

then the compiler complains that he cannot find myclass:


Try just compiling without setting any classpath, or, if your classpath
contains specific settings try: javac -cp .;%CLASSPATH test.java


Arne gave the correct answer, which this wasn't. He also suggested to follow
the coding conventions, which have us use upper-case letters to begin class
names (and lower-case ones to begin variable and method names), and camel case
thereafter.

Additionally, having the word "class" in a class name is silly.

CLASSPATH is a blunt tool. Normally one shouldn't use it, at least not much.
  Use the -cp option completely.

To run Test (correcting the class name), and assuming a dependency on
MyExample in package aaa.bbb.ccc (directory d:\java\output\aaa\bbb\ccc\) and
Test in package xxx.yyy.zzz, and the current working directory d:\work\,

java -cp D:\java\output xxx.yyy.zzz.Test

Of course, Test.java will start off with these directives:

package xxx.yyy.zzz;
import aaa.bbb.ccc.MyExample;

--
Lew

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