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Message:

CLASSPATH problem

Posted by Kishori Sharan on April 28, 2001 at 3:58 PM

Your class is defined as:

package plugins ;

class Abc {
}

and you are placing .class file as /plugins/Abc.class . Now in another Java class you want to use Abc class as

import plugins ;

.....
use Abc class
.....

For this to work your classpath must include / ( i.e. root directory). To check what is set in your class path just write a simple class and try to print classpath setting using:

System.out.println ( System.getProperty ( "java.class.path" ) ) ;

This will give you clue what is going wrong with classpath setting. Or, on command prompt try compiling your second java file as:
javac -classpath / your_second_java_file
and run it as
java -cp / your_second_class_name

Thanks
Kishori