Help

[Sarkis Kirkoriyan]

Please can somebody help me with setup my machine, so i can write and execute java code. I�m an beginner and I have no programming experience, so please keep it simple. Please if you no some step by step plane to made my PC of laptop ready to reach my goal that will be better, or my be you no some url of website of an forum ware I can find some good basic info.

Thanks,
Sarkis

[Nigel Browne]

The Java Tutorial has all the information you need.

[Sarkis Kirkoriyan]

C:\Sun>javac MyFirstApp.java'
javac' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

[Sarkis Kirkoriyan]

I did what wrote there but with out result. I stile resave the flowing error:

C:\Sun>javac MyFirstApp.java'
javac' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

my uservariable path is : C:\Sun\AppServer\bin
and systemvariable is : C:\Sun\AppServer\bin

what is rong here??

[Nigel Browne]

Edit either your user or system Path variable to include the full path of where your bin directory of your JDK is installed. For example:
C:\Program Files\Java\JDK 1.5.0\bin\
Don't forget that entries on the path are seperated by a semi-colon.

[Sarkis Kirkoriyan]

fantastic, it works. but how can i setup the classpath? becose: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.

[Nigel Browne]

As a general rule you shouldn't set the classpath, instead refer to the classpath when you run your code.For example:

C:\>java -classpath <the search path to your class and jar files> MyClass

You can also use the shortened -cp flag.

[Jesper de Jong]

Originally posted by Sarkis Kirkoriyan:
C:\Sun>javac MyFirstApp.java'
javac' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Originally posted by Sarkis Kirkoriyan:
fantastic, it works. but how can i setup the classpath? becose: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.

The tutorial that Nigel pointed you to explains what these error mean and what you should do about them.

So: Please read the tutorial and follow it step by step.