Using packages breaks batch file

Hi there, I wonder if anyone can help me here.
I've been continuing work on somebody else's previous project, and everything is fine except for the batch file used to run the program from non development. I decided to use Eclipse to develop as opposed to the previous JCreator, and Eclipse gave an error unless I used packages, however this breaks the batch file
Here's the orginal text from the batch file -
java.exe -Xmx256m -classpath C:\InsTra\JARS\ant.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\jaxen-core.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\jaxen-jdom.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\jdom.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\saxpath.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\xalan.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\xerces.jar;C:\InsTra\JARS\xml-apis.jar;c:\InsTra\code_files InsTra
The batch file is located in C:\InsTra, the external JARS are in a JARS subfolder, and the java and class files are in Code_files. The main class is InsTra. I get the error NoClassDefFoundError
I've tried making the last bit Code_files.InsTra in case it needed to reference the package, but I'm new to this I'm afraid so have little experience of this sort of thing.
Any help is welcome
Thanks
Daniel

Then either your compiled class is not on the classpath, or you have not used the correct class name. Or both.
The classpath must point to the root of the package hierarchy.
The class name must include the package name (which is dictated by the package line at the top of your source file).
The compiled class file must be in the correct directory.
Given the information that you have provided, your class file should have the following path:
c:\InsTra\code_files\Code_files\It should also have the following line at the top of the .java file:
pacakge Code_files;Class names are case sensitive. Remember that the class path points to the root of the package hierarchy, NOT each of the directories containing class files. For example, if your classpath is thus:
c:\fooYour class file is in:
c:\foo\foo\Spong.classWith a package of:
package foo;And you execute it with:
java -classpath c:\foo foo.SpongThen it will work. The following will not:
java -classpath c:\ foo.Spong
java -classpath c:\foo\foo Spong
java -classpath c:\foo\foo foo.Spong
java -classpath c:\foo\foo Spong.class
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- editing batch files is not scalable to 100+ machines, let alone 10000+.
- The fact that Java worked on the target machine was because it was +already installed.+ Dragging the 'java.exe' onto a Windows PC which has no Java will not magically make it 'Java enabled'.
And speaking of Java on the client machine. Webstart has in-built mechanisms to ensure that the end user has the minimum required Java version to run the app. - we can also use the [deployJava.js|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/deployment_advice.html#deplToolkit] on the original web page, to check for minimum Java before it puts the link to download/install the app. - if the user does not have the required Java, the script should guide them through installing it.
Those nice features in deployJava.js are available to applets and apps. launched using webstart, but they are not available for (plain) Jar's or loose class files. So if 'ensuring the user has Java' is one of the requirements for your launch, you are barking up the wrong tree by deploying loose class files.
Note also that if you abandon webstart, but have your app. set up to work from a Jar, the installation process would be similar to above (though it would not need a .bat file, or editing it). This basic strategy is one way that I provide [Appleteer (as a downloadable ZIP archive)|http://pscode.org/appleteer/#download]. Though I side-step your part 1 by putting the stuff into a Jar with the path Appleteer/ - when the user expands the ZIP, the parts of the app. are already in the Appleteer directory.
Appleteer is also provided as a webstart launched application (and as an applet). Either of those are 'easier' to use than the downloadable ZIP, but I thought I would provide it in case the end user wants to save it to disk and transport the app. to a machine with no internet connection, but with Java (why they would be testing applets on a PC with no internet connection, I am not sure - but the option is there).
"I know that .jar and .exe files are out because I always get errors and I do not like their interfaces. "
What on earth are you talking about? Once the app. is on-screen, the end user would not be able to distinguish between
1) A Jar launched using a manifest.
2) A Jar launched using webstart.
3) Loose class files.
Your fixation on .bat files sounds much like the adage that 'If the only tool you have is a hammer, every job starts to look like a nail'.
Get over them, will you? +Using .bat files is not a practical way to provide a Java app. to the end user+ (and launching an app. from a .bat looks quite crappy and 'second hand' to +this+ user).
Edit 1:
The instructions for running Appleteer as a Jar are further up the page, in the [Running Appleteer: Application|http://pscode.org/appleteer/#application] section.
Edited by: AndrewThompson64 on May 19, 2009 12:06 PM

Using packages breaks batch file

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