ClassNotfoundException

[shirleympearls]

I'm a novice at programming and Java. So i really need the ABC of java! I've got jdk1.6.0_21 on my system and i use windows 7 OS. Trouble is i can't run any of the java programs that i write. I am able to compile but not run them. The programs are free of errors. All i get during runtime is a ClassNotFoundException. Would be glad if someone helps me with this! Thanks!

[JosAH]

Show us the very first line of your source code; I bet your class is stored in a package while you don't know how packages are handled by the JVM.

kind regards,

Jos

[shirleympearls]

Jos, Its a simple hello world program! Just seven lines! :( Do you think I should set my path variables?

[shirleympearls]

This is what I get everytime I try to run a program on the console.


D:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\bin>java ex
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ex
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ex
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java: 202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.j ava:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:3 07)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launche r.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 48)
Could not find the main class: ex. Program will exit.

[JosAH]

This is what I get everytime I try to run a program on the console.


D:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\bin>java ex
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ex

Check if a file ex.class exists in the directory where you want to run it. (funny name "ex", I would've expected something like HelloWorld or similar).

kind regards.

Jos