what is ":" in enabling assertion

[Chandra Bhatt]

Hi!

I dont understand what is ":" in the statement while we enable or disable assertion at runtime.
<code>
java -ea examples.cert1 -da:examples.cert.MyProg1
</code>

In this MyProg1 is class of examples.cert package. I wanted to enable assertion in general for the package examples.cert1 but disable for examples.cert.MyProg1 class. I use Windows XP and "colon" makes my java statement errorneous, if separated by space, no error but no effect of disabling or enabling. while giving no space between -da:<classname> makes it errorful, saying something /// not found.

Please help me to understand this, isnt't something I miss the Unix syntax.

Thanks,
cmbhatt

[Chris Stann]

<code>
java -ea examples.cert1 -da:examples.cert.MyProg1
</code>

You are enabling assertions in examples.cert1 package but disabling them in examples.cert.MyProg1 class. But... what java program are you running?

I would expect to see something like this:

java -ea examples.cert1 -da:examples.cert.MyProg1 MyJavaProgramName