[solved]can't run java apps from command line

Question

Every Java program that i've tried to run from command line gives me a error message like this:
augusto java% java Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Test
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Test
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
Could not find the main class: Test. Program will exit.
`java Test.class` doesn't work too.
but, the exact same code work from eclipse, am I missing something?
Some info:
% ls Test*
Test.class Test.java Test.java~
% cat Test.java
public class Test{
public static void main(String[] args){
System.out.println("doesn't work");
% echo $PATH
/home/augusto/.bin:/home/augusto/.bin:/home/augusto/GNUstep/Tools:/opt/GNUstep/Local/Tools:/opt/GNUstep/System/Tools:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/java/bin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core:/opt/qt/bin
Last edited by hack.augusto (2009-10-27 00:57:53)

Answer 1

also make sure that you current directory is in your classpath.
eg
export CLASSPATH=".:$CLASSPATH"
java Test
your issue is more likely to be classpath related, as java doesn't read the path variable, and the java executable is found
Last edited by bruce (2009-10-27 01:02:51)