[KLUG Members] I am a Java ignoramous

[Scott Thurmond]

Typically the error you are getting is caused by not having the jar file 
listed (really the class file) in your classpath statement.  Try adding the 
complete path name along with the jar file.  Ex. /...path.../NSBrowser.jar

Also, the command # java NSBrowser.java rightly so gives you this error.  The 
*.java files are source files.  The *.class files are the executable byte 
codes that you can pass to the JVM.  # java NSBrowser.class would be what you 
want to run.

Let me know if this helps.

-Scott

On Wednesday 01 August 2001 09:33, you wrote:
> Having the need to run some java stuff (not the least of which is
> xmlBlaster) and knowing that the wonderful and brilliant and
> pro-UNIX/pro-Linux people at IBM have always served me well in the past I
> installed IBMJava2-SDK-1.3-9.0, and added /opt/IBMJava2-13/jre/bin/ to my
> path.  Since the day of that simple "rpm -Uvh" and "vi /etc/profile", when
> I spend about 15 seconds demonstrating again how very hard it is to install
> software on Linux,  I have been happily running Java applications without a
> hitch.  I "java app-name" and up pops a window,  fast and stable.  Couldn't
> be happier.
>
> After all these ages-es-es I have come across my first app that doesn't
> work, and knowing diddly bupt-kiss about java I don't really even
> understand what the error means:
>
> ~/tmp $ java NSBrowser.jar
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: NSBrowser/jar
>
> I got this app from -
> http://darkstar.wizcom.bg/~kiril/software/
>
> It is a CORBA Name Space Browser,  a utility I have been dreaming of
> finding for a very long time.
>
> Knowing that a java jar is like a tar file I do:
> ~/tmp $ /opt/IBMJava2-13/bin/jar tvf NSBrowser.jar
>      0 Wed Feb 07 11:13:12 EST 2001 META-INF/
>     91 Wed Feb 07 11:13:12 EST 2001 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
>    667 Tue Feb 06 12:42:34 EST 2001 NSBrowser$1.class
>    667 Tue Feb 06 12:42:34 EST 2001 NSBrowser$2.class
>    504 Tue Feb 06 12:42:34 EST 2001 NSBrowser$3.class
>   5930 Tue Feb 06 12:42:34 EST 2001 NSBrowser.class
>   4511 Tue Feb 06 12:29:50 EST 2001 NSBrowser.java
>   2784 Tue Feb 06 12:42:34 EST 2001 NSTreeModel$Wraper.class
>   3346 Tue Feb 06 12:42:34 EST 2001 NSTreeModel.class
>   4428 Tue Feb 06 11:46:12 EST 2001 NSTreeModel.java
>
> So extract it and try "java NSBrowser.java" and get -
> ~/tmp $ java NSBrowser.java
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: NSBrowser/java
>
> No joy :(
>
> Any pointers?
>
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