Can't compile client with client.jar

Question

I am unable to compile a static client using the standard client.jar produced by
Weblogic. I am trying to do this in a minimal DOS environment as shown below:
set PATH=d:\jdk1.3.1\bin
set classpath=.;client.jar
javac OssNodeWeblogicClient.java
The compiler gives me the following error:
client.jar(com/nyiso/oss/ossnode/OssNode.java):2:
class OssNode is public, should be declared in a file named ossNode.java
(source unavailable)
1 error
I was surprised to find two java files in client.jar (OssNode.java and OssNodeFactory.java).
These files seem to confuse javac. If I remove these files from client.jar, the
compilation completes without errors and the client runs without any problems.
Has anyone seen this problem?

Answer 1

Naresh,
Just a quick follow-up. I used the -verbose option with
javac and saw that when my compile failed, and I saw the same
error message that you saw, javac was pulling the .java file
from the jar file and trying to compile it. In the example I
did that worked, the javac compiler was pulling the .class file
from the jar file instead.
Basically the javac compiler will fail trying to compile
the .java file located in a jar file, probably because it can't
write the .class file to the same (compressed) location. The
reason that the javac compiler is trying to recompile the .java
file, even though the .class file is also in the jar file, is
that it has determined that the .java file is more up to date.
So two questions for WebLogic:
1) Why does WebLogic include the .java files in the jar
file?
2) Why doesn't the .java file match with the .class file?
I'll let you know if/when I hear more. Rob
"Naresh Bhatia" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
I am unable to compile a static client using the standard client.jar
produced by
Weblogic. I am trying to do this in a minimal DOS environment as shown
below:
set PATH=d:\jdk1.3.1\bin
set classpath=.;client.jar
javac OssNodeWeblogicClient.java
The compiler gives me the following error:
client.jar(com/nyiso/oss/ossnode/OssNode.java):2:
class OssNode is public, should be declared in a file named ossNode.java
(source unavailable)
1 error
I was surprised to find two java files in client.jar (OssNode.java and
OssNodeFactory.java).
These files seem to confuse javac. If I remove these files from client.jar,
the
compilation completes without errors and the client runs without any
problems.
Has anyone seen this problem?