cannot resolve symbol - help

[Dharmendran Govind]

Dear friends,

I am preparing for the SCP for java 2. I purchased this book by author Kathy Sierra. It is simply great...

I am trying out some simple programs from the book.

I had 2 classes in dir C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS

First one is Parent.java

package cert;
public class Parent {
protected int x = 9;
}


Second one is Child.java

package other;
import cert.Parent;
class Child extends Parent {
public void testIt() {
System.out.println("x is " + x);
}
}

The Parent class complies without issues. The Child class errors out saying "Cannot resolve symbol".

I googled the message and checked for my classpath and all seem to be ok.
Any help greatly appriciated.

Regards
Dgovi

[M Mehta]

You cannot access the protected members directly in the subclass class if the subclass is in different package.

[vidhya suvarna]

Protected variables of superclass can be accessed by subclass in a different package without any reference to the Subclass variable (through inheritance).

[Dharmendran Govind]

Vidhya,

Is'nt that what the code is doing? Trying to access variable X through inheritance, which is protected in the superclass that belong to a diff package.

[Henry Wong]

It compiles fine for me.

Henry

[Dharmendran Govind]

wow, Hendry did you do any thing special.
Can you please tell me how your classpath looks.
I have installed J2SDK1.4.2_16.

Regards
Dgovi

[vidhya suvarna]

Dharmendran, yes your code is doing the same.
But may be the problem is in the way your compiling in the required directory.

[Dharmendran Govind]

Vidhya,

I tried javac *.java and it complied fine.
Thanks for your help though.

Regards
Dharmendran

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by Dharmendran Govind:
I tried javac *.java and it complied fine.
Thanks for your help though.

So, now everything works? What has changed?

Henry

[vidhya suvarna]

hey if your current directory is C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS

then compile your CHILD.class as C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS>javac other\Child.java
and run it as C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS>java other\Child

you need to specify the absolute path in both cases.
There's another option where you need to set your classpath.

[Dharmendran Govind]

Henry,

Nothing changed. I googled and someone had tried compling javac *.java and it worked for that person. I also tried compling issuing javac *.java instead of javac Child.java and looks like javac *.java works. No idea why?

Regards
Dharmendran

[Dharmendran Govind]

Vidhya

Thanks for the tip. I tried compling javac other\Child.java. It is now giving me a diff kind of error "cannot read: other\Child.java". For some reason the complier is not seeing the file...

[vidhya suvarna]

I too tired the same way and it compiled fine.

Henry, can you please help on this.

[Henry Wong]

Dharmendran, since you are the one having problems, can you tell us your exact classpath, and the exact command line that you are using?

Henry

[Dharmendran Govind]

Henry

My classpath is

C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\CLIENT~1;C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\CLIENT~1\Shared;C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\CLIENT~1\Emulator;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intuit\QBPOSSDKRuntime;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn;C:\J2SDK1.4.2_16\BIN;C:\J2SDK1.4.2_16\LIB;C:\J2SDK1.4.2_16\JRE;C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS

[Henry Wong]

What's your class path? (Not your path variable, which is something different) And how are you compiling?

Henry

[Henry Wong]

Also, what is the full path location of the java files?

Henry

[Dharmendran Govind]

Henry

Classpath is .;C:\J2SDK1.4.2_16\BIN;C:\J2SDK1.4.2_16\LIB;C:\J2SDK1.4.2_16\JRE;C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS

The java files are in directory C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Dharmendran

[Henry Wong]

The java files are in directory C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS

I am assuming that you mean ...

Parent.java is in C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS\cert? And Child.java is in C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS\other?

Henry
[ September 08, 2008: Message edited by: Henry Wong ]

[Henry Wong]

Classpath is .;C:\J2SDK1.4.2_16\BIN;C:\J2SDK1.4.2_16\LIB;C:\J2SDK1.4.2_16\JRE;C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS

You don't need most of the items in this classpath. You can get rid of everything except for C:\JAVA\PROGRAMS.

And if your current directory is c:\JAVA\PROGRAMS, you actually don't need a classpath at all.

Henry