CLASSPATH Environment Variable on Win2k problem

hi
i am new to java, but having problems to seting the CLASSPATH Environment Variable on my Win2k professional. my university computers are alredy set and i enjoy working with java. i just cant get my head arround to this problem. it would be much appriciated if some one send me a link which provide screenshot to resolve this problem. i got my jdk1.4 kit in a folder caled jdk in c:\ root.
thanks

Ashwani_Saxena wrote:
Our application is stand-alone application and we are using Applet with Object Id tag for JavaScript to Java connectivity. In our application we are displaying the value of classpath environment variable on screen.
Applets and stand alone applications are two different animals.
While migrating from JRE 1.5 to JRE 1.6, we are unable to retrieve the classpath variable value. After analyzing, figure out that when classpath is defined in uppercase (i.e. CLASSPATH) then only we are unable to retrieve its value. However if its defined in lower case or any character is in lower case (i.e. classpath) then its value appears correctly. We are retrieving the classpath value via the "Set" command from Java.
That's completely unnecessary, there's a System.getevn("CLASSPATH") method.
However the CLASSPATH environmental variable isn't much use, and certainly not in the case of Applets, which definitely don't use it.
Futhermore I don't expect the sandbox environment of an Applet will allow you to access the environmental variables in any way, (certainly not by running a program). Applets, unless signed, have almost no access to the client machine they run on.

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