Error running program from a remote folder

[Peter Bassett]

I haven't programmed in Java for awhile and forgot how to get this to work.

I have a program ListFiles developed in c:\java which lists every .JPG and
..GIF file in a folder. It works fine running from that folder. It takes 1
argument, the pathname, so a command could be "java ListFiles ."

But if I try to run it from another folder, using

"java c:\java\ListFil es ."

then I get an error

"Exception in thread 'main' java.lang.NoCla ssDefFoundError : c:\java
\ListFiles/class"

How can I run this from a folder other than the folder with the .java and
..class files ?
BTW, Here's my code -

===========
import java.io.*;
public class ListFiles {
public static void main(String arg[]) {
/*
** java ListFiles . to list images from the current directory
*/
ListFiles d = new ListFiles();
if (arg.length > 0){
System.out.prin tln("Digital Photo List from " + arg[0]);
d.recurseInDirF rom(arg[0]);
}
}

public void recurseInDirFro m(String dirItem) {
File file;
String list[];
file = new File(dirItem);
if (file.isDirecto ry()) {
list = file.list();
for (int i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
list[i] = list[i].toLowerCase();
if (!list[i].startsWith("tn _") && (list[i].endsWith(".jpg ") || list
[i].endsWith(".gif "))) {
System.out.prin tln("\"" + list[i] + "\",\t\t\t\ " \",");
}
}
}
}

}
===========

[Raymond DeCampo]

Peter Bassett wrote:

I haven't programmed in Java for awhile and forgot how to get this to work.

I have a program ListFiles developed in c:\java which lists every .JPG and
.GIF file in a folder. It works fine running from that folder. It takes 1
argument, the pathname, so a command could be "java ListFiles ."

But if I try to run it from another folder, using

"java c:\java\ListFil es ."

then I get an error

"Exception in thread 'main' java.lang.NoCla ssDefFoundError : c:\java
\ListFiles/class"

How can I run this from a folder other than the folder with the .java and
.class files ?

You apparently aren't familiar with the concept of the classpath. The
classpath tells the JVM where to look for classes. The default class
loader used by the JVM interprets the classpath as a sequence of
directories and/or jar files.

In most environments, you can specify the classpath using the
environment variable CLASSPATH or via the -classpath option to the java
process. In DOS, using what I can glean above, this looks like:

set CLASSPATH=C:\ja va
java ListFiles .

or

java -classpath C:\java ListFiles .

An alternate method is to create an executable jar file. This is really
just a jar file that contains a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file. The manifest
file must have an entry for the Main-Class. The value of this entry is
the fully qualified class name of the class to execute. Then you could run

java -jar C:\java\ListFil es.jar .

without having to worry about the classpath.

HTH,
Ray

[Peter Bassett]

Thanks! I had CLASSPATCH as simply . but now realize that I had to add
this pathname also. Works like a dream!

Pete

Raymond DeCampo <rd******@spam. twcny.spam.rr.s pam.com.spam> wrote in
news:e%******** **********@twis ter.nyroc.rr.co m:

Peter Bassett wrote:

I haven't programmed in Java for awhile and forgot how to get this to
work.

I have a program ListFiles developed in c:\java which lists every
.JPG and .GIF file in a folder. It works fine running from that
folder. It takes 1 argument, the pathname, so a command could be
"java ListFiles ."

But if I try to run it from another folder, using

"java c:\java\ListFil es ."

then I get an error

"Exception in thread 'main' java.lang.NoCla ssDefFoundError : c:\java
\ListFiles/class"

How can I run this from a folder other than the folder with the .java
and .class files ?

You apparently aren't familiar with the concept of the classpath. The
classpath tells the JVM where to look for classes. The default class
loader used by the JVM interprets the classpath as a sequence of
directories and/or jar files.

In most environments, you can specify the classpath using the
environment variable CLASSPATH or via the -classpath option to the
java process. In DOS, using what I can glean above, this looks like:

set CLASSPATH=C:\ja va
java ListFiles .

or

java -classpath C:\java ListFiles .

An alternate method is to create an executable jar file. This is
really just a jar file that contains a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file. The
manifest file must have an entry for the Main-Class. The value of
this entry is the fully qualified class name of the class to execute.
Then you could run

java -jar C:\java\ListFil es.jar .

without having to worry about the classpath.

HTH,
Ray