Re: eMac

From:
Lew <lew@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:29:55 -0500
Message-ID:
<qf6dna9Mw8Y5nebYnZ2dnUVZ_vGinZ2d@comcast.com>
Jean Pierre Daviau wrote:

Hi everyone,

Beside using java webstart, how do you start a simple 'Hello World'
application on a e Mac.

----
class
{
 public static void main(String[] args)
 {
  System.out.println("Hello World!");
 }
}


First suggestion:

Write code that you can compile with the 'javac' command (or from within your
IDE). The code you presented will not compile.

Then:

Let us suppose you name your class 'HelloWorld' and that you place the source
code in subdirectory 'example' of your project source directory:

~/learning/src/ $ mkdir example
~/learning/src/ $ emacs example/HelloWorld.java
....
~/learning/src/ $ javac example/HelloWorld.java

Assuming you got no errors from the compilation, you can now run the resulting
program:

~/learning/src/ $ java -cp . example.HelloWorld

Naturally, your source must declare the correct package and name the class, as
well as making it public:

/* HelloWorld.java
  */
package example;
public class HelloWorld
{
  ...
}

Take a gander at Bruce Eckel's book _Thinking in Java_, available in free
online versions, and the abundant tutorials on the Sun Java sites.

- Lew

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