launching application with java command line

[java_on_fire]

Hi all,

I have been stuck doing this for few hours, i appreciate if someone can help me out!

I have two classes;

    package test;  
      
    public class TestingClient {  
      
        /** 
         * @param args 
         */  
        public static void main(String[] args) {  
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub  
            System.out.println(new Client().getCounter());  
        }  
      
    }

and

    package test;  
      
    class Client {  
        private int counter;  
          
        Client(){  
            counter = 10;  
        }  
          
        public int getCounter() {  
            return counter;  
        }  
    }

I'm running ubuntu 11.10 and i have tested java and javac and they work.

The following is my directory structure:

home/workspace/Testing/src/test/TestingClient.java  
home/workspace/Testing/src/test/Client.java

the current directory is src

I used:

javac TestingClient.java

and it created the class file TestingClient.class inside src/test

 javac -d ../classes Client.java

and it created the class file Client.class inside Testing/classes

now when i use:

 java -cp ../classes test.TestingClient

i get this error message:
Error: Could not find or load main class test.TestingClient

what i'm doing wrong?

PS: later on, i put both classes inside the bin folder inside the project folder and java command line worked! could it be the -cp?

[Norm]

The TestingClient class is in the test package. The java program will look in a test folder for the TestingClient.class file.
You say that the TestingClient.class file is in the classes folder, not a test folder.

The classpath for the java command should point to the folder containing the test folder. The test folder should contain the TestingClient.class file.