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Vignesh
Vignesh

Reputation: 2325

How to run Java program in command prompt

I created a Java project to call a Web service. It has one Main java file and another class file. I have used some jar files for HTTP client.
In Eclipse it runs fine. I need to run the Java program in command prompt by passing some arguments.
In command prompt I went to src folder containing main java and sub class java file and gave the following command 

javac mainjava.java

I'm getting following error

mainjava.java:14: cannot find symbol
symbol : class SubClass

here SubClass is my another java class file used to call the web service.

How to run the program by passing arguments?

Upvotes: 27

Views: 178060

Answers (5)

Thinhbk
Thinhbk

Reputation: 2214

All you need to do is:

  • Build the mainjava class using the class path if any (optional)

    javac *.java [ -cp "wb.jar;"]

  • Create Manifest.txt file with content is:

    Main-Class: mainjava

  • Package the jar file for mainjava class

    jar cfm mainjava.jar Manifest.txt *.class

Then you can run this .jar file from cmd with class path (optional) and put arguments for it.

java [-cp "wb.jar;"] mainjava arg0 arg1

HTH.

Upvotes: 2

hmjd
hmjd

Reputation: 121971

javac is the Java compiler. java is the JVM and what you use to execute a Java program. You do not execute .java files, they are just source files. Presumably there is .jar somewhere (or a directory containing .class files) that is the product of building it in Eclipse:

java/src/com/mypackage/Main.java
java/classes/com/mypackage/Main.class
java/lib/mypackage.jar

From directory java execute:

java -cp lib/mypackage.jar Main arg1 arg2

Upvotes: 25

Dhanush Gopinath
Dhanush Gopinath

Reputation: 5739

javac only compiles the code. You need to use java command to run the code. The error is because your classpath doesn't contain the class Subclass iwhen you tried to compile it. you need to add them with the -cp variable in javac command

java -cp classpath-entries mainjava arg1 arg2 should run your code with 2 arguments

Upvotes: 1

Shrewd
Shrewd

Reputation: 741

A very general command prompt how to for java is

javac mainjava.java
java mainjava

You'll very often see people doing

javac *.java
java mainjava

As for the subclass problem that's probably occurring because a path is missing from your class path, the -c flag I believe is used to set that.

Upvotes: 16

gkuzmin
gkuzmin

Reputation: 2474

You can use javac *.java command to compile all you java sources. Also you should learn a little about classpath because it seems that you should set appropriate classpath for succesful compilation (because your IDE use some libraries for building WebService clients). Also I can recommend you to check wich command your IDE use to build your project.

Upvotes: 3

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