Testing The Environment

[ALEXJM]

I'm working from a book to teach me programming in Java. I downloaded JDK 6 (Update 24) and then tried to test the set up. I typed 'java -version' and the results looked ok. But when I did 'javac -version' I got an error message, stating that 'javac' isn't recognised. Any ideas??

[JosAH]

I'm working from a book to teach me programming in Java. I downloaded JDK 6 (Update 24) and then tried to test the set up. I typed 'java -version' and the results looked ok. But when I did 'javac -version' I got an error message, stating that 'javac' isn't recognised. Any ideas??

You Java compiler (javac.exe) is stored somewhere; add that directory to your path environment variable; this is not a Java thingy, it's an operating system issue.

kind regard,

Jos

[DarrylBurke]

I downloaded JDK 6 (Update 24) and then tried to test the set up.

You did install the JDK, didn't you?

And if you did install it, did you change any target folders from the default?

db

[j2me64]

usually to work properly java need the environment variable JAVA_HOME to be set (on window system no backslash at the end) and an entry in the environment variable path with %JAVA_HOME&\bin to find the executables like javac. tell, if you are working on a linux because running java on linux the configuration is different.

[ALEXJM]

Thanks for all your replies, this has now been sorted.