How do you run a java program in linux?

[rayzinnz]

Hi. I've just written my very first program in java in the eclipse program that comes with Ubuntu. It runs fine in eclipse, but I want to run it without loading up eclipse everytime. I tried installing the jdk, but when I type in "java HelloWorldSWT" in the terminal this message comes up:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/swt/widgets/Composite
Now I'm new to both linux and java, but it seems to me I need to add the swt commands to the java runtime somehow, only I haven't the foggiest idea how.
Thanks

[hardwired]

Have you seen this? "Hello World!" for Solaris OS and Linux

[rayzinnz]

Hi thanks hardwired

OK this was originally compiled with eclipse, so I tried compiling with javac this time and get this error:
"package org.eclipse.swt.events does not exist" because I have got the import statement:
"import org.eclipse.swt.events.*" amoungst others, which leads on to a whole lot of other errors.
I also tried the suggestion in to unset CLASSPATH, to no avail.
In Eclipse I used File/Import/Existing Projects into Workspace, then select the SWT archive to run the SWT commands. But then I need eclipse open to run the program.
So how can utilise the SWT in a javac command?

[rayzinnz]

OK got it!

I compile in eclipse, then run with java using this command:

java -classpath "org.eclipse.swt/swt.jar:." HelloWorldSWT

I'm not sure what the ":." is for but it doesn't work without it.

Thanks I originally had difficulty searching in google as I didn't know the lingo.

[lada314]

the dot "." means current class path, the ":" stands for a seperator