jar files

[Brian R Wolf]

Hi,

I have a library in a jar file that has this:

10230 Mon Dec 11 00:23:48 MST 2006 com/sun/syndication/io/XmlReader.class
1692 Mon Dec 11 00:23:48 MST 2006 com/sun/syndication/io/XmlReaderException.class

I compile a program, that has this line in it:

XmlReader reader = null;

It compiles into a class with no complaints

javac -cp ./rome-0.9.jar:./jdom.jar Reader.java

However, when I run it:

java -cp . Reader

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/syndication/io/XmlReader

so is it expecting access to the jar file at run time? (I thought jar files get compiled into the class)

Thanks
Brian

[Henry Wong]

Brian R Wolf wrote:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/syndication/io/XmlReader

so is it expecting access to the jar file at run time? (I thought jar files get compiled into the class)

Yes, it is expecting the jar file. (and no, it doesn't get compiled into the class).

Henry

[Brian R Wolf]

I'm not sure how to do that:

java -jar ./rome-0.9.jar -cp ./Reader
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
./rome-0.9.jar

Thanks
Brian

[Brian R Wolf]

I also try this

java -cp ./rome-0.9.jar ./Reader
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: //Reader

[Henry Wong]

Brian R Wolf wrote:I'm not sure how to do that:

java -jar ./rome-0.9.jar -cp ./Reader
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
./rome-0.9.jar

The -jar option is to run specially configured jar files -- that specifies a main. To run a class, that needs a jar just include the jar in the class path. In much the same way as you did while compiling....

java -cp ./rome-0.9.jar:. Reader


Henry

[Brian R Wolf]

OK, that works great , thanks
one more thing bugging me about jar files,

I have this one

jar xvf twitter4j-core-2.1.0.jar

....

and clearly contains
inflated: twitter4j/http/HttpClient.class

however when I try to use this class,

I declare it in the program:
....
import twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClient;
....

then when I try to compile:

javac -cp ./twitter4j-core-2.1.0.jar FeedMonitor.java

FeedMonitor.java:133: cannot find symbol
symbol : class HttpClient
location: class FeedMonitor
private HttpClient http = new HttpClient();

[Henry Wong]

That's because those two classes are two different classes -- as a classname is fully qualified with the package too. The class you are trying to import is not the one in the Jar file.

Also, unless you are sure, I don't recommending changing the import -- just because two APIs have the similar class names doesn't mean that they work the same.

Henry