I'm a real rookie with Java. I just downloaded java from the sun site. I performed the test and it gave me a good response. I'm on windows vista. How do I now launch the java console to get started? Thanks, Arv
What, specifically, are you trying to accomplish, and what are you describing when you say 'java console'?
Campbell Ritchie
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Try going to "all programs" "accessories" (??"system tools") "command prompt", right-drag that onto the desktop and click "create shortcut". If you try java -version and javac -version, do you get a sensible output with 1.6.**** in or do you get error messages?
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Thanks all. I got to a "dos window" and typed in "java". It came back with Usage: java [-options], etc.
I want a Java GUI to come up. How do I launch a Java GUI that allows me to write and run Java code?
Thanks
What do you mean by a "java GUI"? If you mean some kind of integrated development environment (commonly known as an IDE), I would recommend you DON'T use one. Use any plain old text editor. Notepad works just fine, as long as you make sure you don't save it as a .txt file.
Almost everyone here would recommend that beginners do all their coding that way. Using an IDE hides a log of the workings from you. It's much better to understand what's going on first by doing it the 'hard way', so that in the future, when you have problems (and you will), you know whats going on.
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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