Beginner Java Programmer

[lostinlinux]

Ok, I am trying to learn some java and for some reason whenever I try to run java on even the simplest of files I get an error as follows:

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bash-2.05b$ java Hello.class
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Hello/class

The Program is simple and is this (I included javax.servlet only to make sure it was reading my classpath right)

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import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;

public class Hello {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
                System.out.println("Test Output");
        }
}

I am really new to the java world so I have no clue how o go about fixing this, if anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it

[yak8998]

you dont need to type the .class at the end, you just type

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java Hello

EDIT: oh, FYI, you don't need to import any packages for that simple program

[Beholders_Eye]

You have to export the CLASSPATH of your local dir for java to find your newly compiled out class...

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export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:.

Should be enough, but I, personally don't like this approach. I'd recommend that you try out Eclipse to learn something out of java.

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emerge eclipse-sdk

[lostinlinux]

ah gotcha, it was just a matter of not typing the .class at the end, thanks a lot, lol, funny how something so easy is so easily overlooked. I am aware of not having to import anything but I just wanted to make sure that the classpath was setup. Thanks again