javac: not a directory: src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java

[Eric Fancis]

I am on chapter 3 of Headfirst Servlets and JSP.

This is my input to windows 7 command line:
D:\Workspaces\ServletsJSP\MyProjects\beerV1>javac -classpath C:\Tomcat\tomcat\lib\servlet-api.jar;classes;. -d src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java

This is the error message:
javac: not a directory: src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java
Usage: javac <options> <source files>
use -help for a list of possible options

I have BeerSelect.java in this directory: D:\Workspaces\ServletsJSP\MyProjects\beerV1\src\com\example\web

[Rajeev Motha]

Hi Eric,

This is expected.
If you type javac -help you will see that -d is to specify the directory of the generated class files. And since "src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java" is not a directory, it is stating that.

Cheers,
Code On!

[Darryl Burke]

Eric, you never did return to the first thread you started, not even to SayThanks <-- link.

Hope you won't vanish again this time round.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Yes, you need to specify a directory after -d. If you start off in the directory where all your source files are, -d . is a likely place to try first.

[Eric Fancis]

Rajeev Motha wrote:Hi Eric,

This is expected.
If you type javac -help you will see that -d is to specify the directory of the generated class files. And since "src\com\example\web\BeerSelect.java" is not a directory, it is stating that.

Cheers,
Code On!

Thanks, I did forget to put -d classes