Thread: employing library jar from windows command line

I have never used a jar based library before. After having had problems getting javac to compile a .class properly, I got that figured out and got a successful compile with this batch file:


C:\z\java\jdk1.6.0\bin\javac -classpath C:\z\marc4j\marc4j-2.4\lib\normalizer.ja
r;C:\z\marc4j\marc4j-2.4\marc4j.jar %1.java

To execute with java, I made this "run" batch file:

C:\z\java\jdk1.6.0\bin\java -classpath C:\z\marc4j\marc4j-2.4\lib\normalizer.jar
;C:\z\marc4j\marc4j-2.4\marc4j.jar %1


This produces the following response:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hw

The source I'm compiling is called "hw.java" and looks like this:



import org.marc4j.MarcReader;

class hw
{
public static void main(String [] args)
{
System.out.println("It runs!");
}
}


Everything seems ok to me, so where did I go wrong?


TIA

Where is the hw.class file?

Somebody else put it in a jar, I'm just trying to get it out. If I would have the source, I'd compile it the old fashioned way. Class files I'm pretty much used to, or at least they have worked until now. I will try -jar and see how it goes. Hmmm, so javac does not do it, but java does. Tricky. I appreciate the advice.

javac does not do it, but java does

What is the "do it" you refer to?

Originally Posted by Norm

Where is the hw.class file?

After javac runs successfully, hw.class appears by magic. same as usual. Sorry, I did not provide dir output along the way.

Have a -jar extension/argument. Sorry for the imprecision.