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suggestion....

Posted by amit on December 05, 2000 at 3:42 PM

try changing the file name altogether..

amith.

> Hi,

> I encountered the following exception when tried to
> run my Java program:

> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main

> This is my class definition:

> public class MZMZ
> {
> public static void main(String[] args)
> {
> System.out.println("Hello Horse");
> }
> }

>
> To prove my class does contain main mehtod, I run
> "javap MZMZ", here is the outcome:

> Compiled from MZMZ.java
> public class MZMZ extends java.lang.Object{
> public MZMZ();
> public static main(String[] );
> }

> This is some extra information:
> I run this program on Windows NT 4.0 machine on which
> I installed JDK1.2. The directory which contains this
> MZMZ.class is specified in CLASSPATH too.

>
> java gurus, please enlighten me what happened to
> my Java program/JVM? I even plan to reformat my
> harddisk and re-install the OS and JDK.

> Thanks
> --
> Michael