Running in to some trouble

[ner ieru]

Hey there, I just got "Head First Java (2nd edition)"

And ran into some trouble with the examples on page 12 & 13

It compiles just fine, but when I try to run the class file I get the following error:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\bin>java DooBee.class
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: DooBee/class
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: DooBee.class
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: DooBee.class. Program will exit.

And this is the actual code:

public class DooBee{
	public static void main (String[] args){
		int x = 1;
		while(x<3){
			System.out.println("Doo");
			System.out.println("Bee");
			x++;
		}
		if(x == 3){
			System.out.println("Do");
		}
	}
}

What am I doing wrong?

Btw I'm using notepad++ to write my code, just the cmd from my windows xp sp3 for compiling and running the .class from the .java file

So I compile (which goes just fine) Hence I think the problem might be somewhere in my JDK folder
I can't run, I was able to run the first example though..

Any help is greatly appreciated

Kudos,
~nerieru

[harilal ithikkat]

no need of extension

java DooBee is enough

[harilal ithikkat]

Welcome to JAVARANCH.......

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

As harilal ithikkat pointed out, you should compile using

javac DooBee.java

and run using
java DooBee

not

java DooBee.class

[ner ieru]

Oh, that fixed my problems! I thank you kindly

And thanks for the welcome

[ner ieru]

As I don't see an edit button

I would also like to thank you for your quick replies!

Edit: and after posting this message it appeared

[fred rosenberger]

The "cattle drive" forum is for questions about the Cattle Drive and it's assignments. this question probably belongs in the 'beginners' forum, so I'll move it over there for you.