cannot find the class file when running the java command

[kulangotski]

hello, thanks for reading.

I am an eclipse user and running files(classes) from the terminal was a bit forgotten to me.
tried to play with my terminal but it gets me to a situation where I had no clue.

I can do the java command 'javac Hello.java'. it reads for a while and then suddenly you have a .class file in the place where the .java file exists but when I do the the javac like 'java Hello', it would say

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Hello

I believe I have the classpaths set because I can invoke the 'javac' command. and my classpath is
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin
CLASSPATH=$TOMCAT_HOME/lib:$TOMCAT_HOME:$JAVA_HOME

I even copied the Hello.class file to the same directory where the java command lies. in the bin directory and it would still give me that friendly message

so I am bit clueless right now, do I have something wrong with my paths? or maybe with the files I am creating?

Any suggestions would be appreciated :D

regards,
simon

[kulangotski]

update:


tried to do the command "java -classpath . Hello" and it worked. I was wondering why it was no able to act upon the classpath that I set on my system variable?

[goldest]

I was wondering why it was no able to act upon the classpath that I set on my system variable?

The environment variable settings are normally used by the command processor to search for the executables and batch files, like *.exe and *.bat files. So when you type "java", it actually goes to your java installations bin directory, where it finds the java.exe and it executes the further things.

If you have placed your generated .class file inside the bin directory [which is in environment variable], then you would have to explicitly mention the class path for that file using the -cp or -classpath option. In your case, on a windows machine you would have to run,

java -cp "%path%" Hello

which would run your program correctly.

One more thing, whenever you specify the -cp or -classpath option along with java, it overrides the classpath environment variable settings declared.

Hope that helps,

Goldest

[kulangotski]

Hi,

That was too much help, now I understand. Thanks for replying :D

regards,
simon

[goldest]

You are Welcome :D