Michael Sinz wrote:
> Hmmm... This tends to happen when the Java classes.zip file is not found
> by the JVM.
> ...
> I personally think that no user should every point at classes.zip and
> that the system should automatically make sure it is at the end of
> the classpath so that things work.
Maybe a good compromise would be for the JVM to print out
a special, helpful, error message right at startup
if java.lang.Thread can't be found?
We might want to assume that it should be stored in a file
classes.zip, and if classes.zip is not on the classpath,
append it and retry the operation.
If that fails, it could print out the following message
showing where it tried to load classes.zip from:
Error: class java.lang.Thread not found.
Classes.zip not in classpath.
Cannot find file /usr/java/lib/classes.zip.
You may need to reinstall Java.
(OK, OK, I should just add the code myself... but I'm too lame
right now...)
- Dan
