On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:57:16 +0100 (CET), Frank B. Brokken wrote:
>Dear listmembers,
>
> I ran into a weird problem: I'm probably overlooking something, but
>somehow I don't see what it is.
>
>I have the following small application (using jdk 1.1.7-v1a, on a glibc based
>Linux system)
>
>public class classname
>{
> public static void main(String args[])
> {
> try
> {
> Class
> c = Class.forName("String");
> }
> catch (Exception e)
> {
> System.out.println(e);
> }
> }
>}
>
>This program generates
>
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: String
>
>and I don't understand why. When I use the full class name, i.e.,
>
> ...
> c = Class.forName("java.lang.String");
> ...
>
>execution proceeds flawlessly, but this is obviously not what I want. What on
>earth am I doing wrong ?
You are not doing anything wrong. There is no "String" class unless you
wrote it. There is a "java.lang.String" class that is part of the standard
Java classes.
Now, you may have always typed "String" rather than "java.lang.String"
but that is only because there is a default import of java.lang.*
which makes all of those classes available without the fully qualified
name.
Class.forName does not have an "import" statement since that is only
a compiler trick so that you do not have to type the full name.
You may wish to put in a bit of code where if the class is not found
you prepend the package name (or names) that you want and try again.
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com
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