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setting the class path

 
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hi all,

can you please tell me the meaning of this %classpath%

in --
set classpath=%classpath%


thanks,

vinay rajnish
 
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CLASSPATH (preferably in capital letters) is an environment which holds a value comprising of one or set of locations on a physical file system each separted by the OS specific path separator.

The classpath variable is used when compiling a .java file which may in turn make use of the classes available either directly or inside the archive (jar) file present in any of the classpath locations.

Hope this helps!
 
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%classpath% represents the current value of the classpath variable, so
set classpath=%classpath%
just sets the variable to it's current value. Where it is more useful is if you want to add another directory/jar file to your classpath.

So if your current classpath is
jar1.jar;jar2.jar;jar3.jar;jar4.jar;jar5.jar
then typing
set classpath=%classpath%;newjar.jar
will change the value to
jar1.jar;jar2.jar;jar3.jar;jar4.jar;jar5.jar;newjar.jar
 
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As far as I know
when you use javac or java they search for files in the directories that are in '$classspath' variable. Thats why before you use javac you need to make sure that the directory containing the java file is in your classpath.
 
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