Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main (Error)

Question

Hello,
I'm new to learning Java and I'm receiving the following error message whenever I try to run the following program. Can someone help?
//code
class Books {
     String title;
     String author;
     class BooksTestDrive {
     public static void main(String [] args)     {
     Books [] myBooks = new Books[3];
     int x = 0;
     myBooks[0] = new Books();
     myBooks[1] = new Books();
     myBooks[2] = new Books();
     myBooks[0].title = "The Grapes of Java";
     myBooks[1].title = "The Java Gatsby";
     myBooks[2].title = "The Java Cookbook";
     myBooks[0].author = "bob";
     myBooks[1].author = "sue";
     myBooks[2].author = "ian";
     while (x < 3) {
     System.out.print(myBooks[x].title);
     System.out.print(" by ");
     System.out.println(myBooks[x].author);
     x = x + 1;
//end of code
Thanks,
H

Answer 1

1.) Use the code button when posting your code, it makes it more readable.
2.) You should have posted the error message in the text as well, it's slightly confusing this way.
NoSuchMethodError means that Java wanted to invoke a method that's not there. In this case it's called "main". So you tried to run a Java class that does not have a main method. How did you try to run your Program (exact command, please)?