java.util.TimerTask

[dale conn]

hi there can anyone tell me what jar file the above comes from?

many thanks

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Like all the standard Java API classes, it's in rt.jar (JDKDIR/jre/lib/rt.jar).

Why do you want to know, may I ask?

[dale conn]

i have a timer thread class that works on my local pc but when i put the class on a development server, the code doesn't work

i'm getting no error messages, so it's hard to track were it's bombing out and it's annoying me

if i comment the line of code out that creates a timer thread then it's fine, so i've narrowed it down to the timer thread class the only thing i can think of is the difference between the jars on my loacl pc and the dev. server

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Anything that starts with "java.*" is always in rt.jar. For "javax.*", it might be in rt.jar, or it might not be; this is unfortunate.

But if you look at the Javadocs for java.util.TimerTask, you see that this class was introduced in JDK 1.3. If your server is running 1.2.x, then it won't be there, but you should see a NoClassDefFoundError.