Ok, let's try something simple. Copy the following code - the entire lot - and just paste it into your Terminal
If you click on the "view plain" button you will be able to easily select, copy and paste everything.
What happened? Did you get the
word "Hello" printed, or did you get a stack trace?
If you saw the word "Hello" printed, can you see what the difference is between how you are running your code and how I ran that example?
If you saw a stack trace, can you please copy the entire stack trace and paste it into this topic so we can better advise you?
Likewise, if my sample code worked, and you can't see what the difference is between what I did and what you are doing, can you please post your entire stack trace so we can advise you.
You shouldn't need to know where Java is installed - since you are getting an Exception, Java must be installed and must be running. But for completeness, this is how I find it on my computer:
Of course that tells me next to nothing, just that I am using whatever the default "current" version is. To see that, I would have to look at the version information:
So right now, if I am working in a Terminal, I will be using JDK 1.5
Not sure why I would want to go to all that trouble though, since I can get the same information by typing
java -version at the command line. Much simpler. I never need to look at what Apple have actually installed or where. Most of the time I work in Eclipse which I have set to default to JDK 6, which it found for me automagically.