cannot find symbol

[Tontang Bei]

I have 2 classes both in same package (util.DateParse and util.Testit). I try calling a static method of the class DateParse from class Testit class, and it says:

Testit.java:9: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable DateParse
location: class util.Testit
Date d1=DateParse.parseIt(input);
^
1 error

below are the codes for the class

Class DateParse

import java.util.*;
import java.text.*;
 
public class DateParse{
 
   public static Date ParseIt(String dateTobeParsed){
    Date date=null;
   try{
DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-mm-dd");
date = (Date)formatter.parse(dateTobeParsed);
      }catch(ParseException ps){System.out.println(ps);}
return date;
    }
 

Class Testit

 
package util;
import java.util.*;
 
public class Testit{
 
  public void test(){
    String input="2007-05-01";
    Date d1=DateParse.parseIt(input);   <-- giving compiler error here
    Calendar c=Calendar.getInstance();
    c.setTime(d1);
    
    System.out.println("yyyy="+c.get(c.YEAR));
    System.out.println("mm="+c.get(c.MONTH));
    }
}

[Christophe Verré]

Make sure that your CLASSPATH is properly set. If you're compiling in the util directory, you can try "javac -cp . *.java"

public static Date ParseIt(String dateTobeParsed){

You'd better give method names starting with lower-case.

[Tontang Bei]

Thnaks very much Satou. I have fixed the method names and gotten it to compile but when I run it it gives the following exception

C:\jf\util>java Testit
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Testit (wrong name: util/Testit)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)

below is the method test() in Testit class

package util;
 
import java.util.*;
 
public class Testit{
 
  public void test(){
    String input="2007-05-01";
    Date d1=DateParse.parseIt(input);
    Calendar c=Calendar.getInstance();
    c.setTime(d1);
    
    System.out.println("yyyy="+c.get(c.YEAR));
    System.out.println("mm="+c.get(c.MONTH));
    }
 
public static void main(String[] args){
new Testit().test();
 
}
}

Ive even tried running with java -classpath . Testit and it still doesnt work.
[ May 07, 2007: Message edited by: Tontang Bei ]

[Tontang Bei]

Ok I got it. I was running from within current package which was mistake.