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    My assignment was simply to see if this program would compile. It does. But going further, I wanted to run it. I get the error message "Error: Main method not found in class Clock, please define the main method as: public static void main(String[] args)". While I appreciate its polite tone, I cannot see anything wrong with the code (as I do have a main method defined). Can you point me in the right direction?

    class Clock {
       String time; 
       void setTime(String t) {
          time = t;
       }
     
       String getTime() {
          return time;
       }
    }
     
    class ClockTestDrive {
       public static void main(String [] args) {   
          Clock c = new Clock();
     
    	  c.setTime("1245");
    	  String tod = c.getTime();
    	  System.out.println("time: " + tod);
       }
    }


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    Default Re: Newbie question, simple program

    You're trying to run class Clock. Do your run on class ClockTestDrive and it works just fine. You have to run the class with the main function.

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