Classpath in Command line

[Nelo Angelo]

Hello everyone,

I was going through Head First Servlets book and found myself stuck in the BeerSelect.java example.

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PROBLEM
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To compile the servlet following code is being used:
% javac -classpath /Users/bert/Applications2/tomcat/common/lib/servlet-api.jar:classes:. -d classes src/com/example/web/BeerSelect.java

I am using Windows XP and my Tomcat directory's path is this:
C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 5.5/common/lib;


So I am using this code in the command prompt to compile, but it generates an error:
C:\beerV1>javac -classpath /Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 5.5/common/lib//servlet-api.jar:classes:. -d classes src/com/example/web/BeerSelect.java

Error:
javac: invalid flag: Files/Apache
Usage: javac <options> <source files>

[arvind kushwaha]

set the classpath for your program. For eg.

c:> set classpath=.;Here provide the path of your servlet-api-jar; %z%;

[Nelo Angelo]

Thanks for the replies, but I want to know how the above given code can be modified to be used in Windows. The compound statement that sets the classpath as well as compiles the code.

[Campbell Ritchie]

You would appear to have misread the previous post, which uses a Windows® idiom.
Yoiur question is not at all clear. Do you mean this
javac -cp .;c:\MyFolder\MyOtherFolder\MyJar.jar MyClass.java

[Shankh Pani Parimal]

// Set Class path to compile classes
C:\Documents and Settings\sparimal>set CLASSPATH=path1;path2;
// compile classes
C:\Documents and Settings\sparimal>javac MyClass.java
// Execute compiled Classes
C:\Documents and Settings\sparimal>java MyClass

shankh

[Nelo Angelo]

Thanks for the reply guys, the problem is resolved.

I used the following code:

C:\beerV1>javac -cp C:\Tomcat_6.0\lib\servlet-api.jar; -d classes src/com/example/web/BeerSelect.java