Re: Java Hello World running problem

From:

Hongyu <hongyu_wu@yahoo.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:09:37 -0700 (PDT)

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On Jul 29, 6:34 pm, Donkey Hot <s...@plc.is-a-geek.com> wrote:

Hongyu <hongyu...@yahoo.com> wrote innews:78336657-ad1b-416f-ba90-b227abf=

a7781@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

On Jul 29, 5:28 pm, Donkey Hot <s...@plc.is-a-geek.com> wrote:

Hongyu <hongyu...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:7970c0c6-6c08-43d6-a55e-
0dc114d7a...@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

Hi,

I am new to Java and Linux. I have a Linux PC and I tried to write
a simple HelloWorld java program and compile and run it, but I got
errors.
Below is the HelloWorld program:

package world;

public class HelloWorld
{
public static void main(String args[]) throws Except=

ion

        {
                System.out.println("Hello World!");
        }
}

after compiled it by "javac HelloWorld.java", it passed. And then I
tried to run it by the below command java HelloWorld and got
errors. So I searched on the internet and found that I need to
specify the package name, so I run by the below command:

java world.HelloWorld

Java packages are married with filesystem folders. So you have to
have a subfolder world in your current folder, and the
HelloWorld.class in that.

world.HelloWordl means world/HelloWorld.class and
world.iceland.HelloWorld means world/iceland/HelloWorl=

d.c

lass

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Thanks Roedy and Donkey for the help. I looked both of them. Since the
article Roedy sited looks more complicated than the Donkey's method,
so i tried Donkey's method first, but if necessary, i will go back to
study more details on the article Roedy recommanded.

Yes, adding a world subfolder to my current folder and move the
HelloWorld.class to that folder and run the command
java world.HelloWorld, it worked! Thanks for the help again.

But I have another question here. I can't always run the progrom in
the current directory, which is ~/workspace/temp, so I would to try
whether i can still run the program in another directory, but
unfortunately I met the similar error again.

That is, I run the below command at the directory of ~/workspace,
instead of ~/workspace/temp, with my HelloWorld.class in the ~/
workspace/temp/world directory by the command:

java temp/world/HelloWorld or java temp.world.HelloWorld or java ~/
workspace/temp/world/HelloWorld, but failed again.

Can anyone kindly help again.

Thanks a lot.

I have not read Roedy's link now, but I think it leads you to the more
advanced tracks on the issue. There will be packaging your classes to a
jar file and Classpath and MANIFEST.MF and such.

You will need those. My advice was really a snap first-aid, and will not
help but only in the very basics.

Your application will eventually contain more than one class file, and
then you figure out that you do not want to deliver
tens/hundreds/thousans of files, but only one. That will be a jar file.

A jar file can be clickable from your favorite file manager.

Thanks everyone's kind help. I will try all your suggestions and also
read the link Roedy provided and practice it tomorrow in more details
since I don't have my computer with my source code here now.

Thanks again.

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