Well, I wasn't in office for sometime....now that I'm back, here goes *From jdk1.2*, u don't need to set the classpath at all!!!!! (If u use the bootstrap classes and the extensions provided by jdk only). Check these links out as to how classes are found. http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/tooldocs/findingclasses.html http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/tooldocs/solaris/classpath.html And yes, the classes in the current directory are also "seen" by the java interpreter since "." is the default CLASSPATH setting (i.e if no CLASSPATH env variable is found). If u need to define the CLASSPATH environment variable, (for classes developed by u/3rd party) then you will have to specify "." in the classpath, as you overrode the default "." ...seems fair enough doesn't it. The links should give u more info. HTH Kiran Rajeev Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/13/2000 10:35:59 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai/India/IBM) Subject: Re: [LIP] NoClassDefFound error putting . in classpath solves the problem , but why do we need the current directory in classpath ? it should first look in the current directory only , is n't it ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You probably donot have "." the current directory in ur classpath. Correct > the same and try running "java" on the class file and Subject: Re: [LIH] sun jdk on RH6.2 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:57:46 +0530 From: Rajeev Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi list the problem was of not having a . in classpath. but java and javac path were set and i was trying to execute the byte-codes from current directory only. on earlier machine classpath didn't have a . and it was working fine, when i executed programs from the same directory. on this machine also,search should start from the current directory , so why u have to include it explicitly in the classpath ? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on the LIH mailing list see: http://lists.linux-india.org/lists/LIH
