Joel Bijapurkar wrote:I have written the following code to create the .class file:
This code runs properly and the HelloWorld.class file does get generated. How do I execute this .class file?
Well, since the class file isn't available at compile time (of the program that wants to execute the code), one option is to use the reflection library.
Thanks Tim and Henry. I tried using the Runtime and ProcessBuilder option. Here is the code i created:
This program executes without any errors or exceptions but the HelloWorld program does not execute. In my HelloWorld program I am writing to a "out.txt" file, but after executing this program when I open the "out.txt" file it is blank.
The HelloWorld program executes fine through the command prompt. But in the command prompt we use the following command set path = "C:\Program File\Java\jdk\bin" . Do I have to do use this command in this case too? If so, how?
We don't do java file_system_path_to_class_file. We do java -cp some_classpath fully.qualified.ClassName
So, if your HelloWorld class is not in a package, and you have C:/HelloWorld.class, then you'd execute java -cp C:/ HelloWorld
If, on the other hand, HelloWorld was in package com.mycompany.hello, and you had, for example, C:/projects/HW/com/mycompany/hello/HelloWorld.class, then you'd execute java -cp C:/projects/HW com.mycompay.hello.HelloWorld
Note that the class must be in a subdirectory path matching the package name, and the parent directory of the root of that subdirectory must be on the classpath.
Note that to function properly you may have to handle the input/output/error streams of the Process, and generally follow the advice given in this article.
Joel Bijapurkar wrote:Thank you Jeff. I tried executing the following command:
But the file is not executing.
Unfortunately in Jeff's posts a space coinicided with a newline. The command Jeff was suggesting is
java -cp C:/ HelloWorld
with a space after the c:/
Actually, I was making a different point, but that point was based on my own misunderstanding of something the OP had said, so I won't muddy things any further by trying to unravel it.
Tim Moores wrote:Try using an absolute path (for "java").
Which you can use System.getProperty("java.home") for. Add the bin folder, add the java executable, and you have the full path to the java executable of the currently used JVM.
Tim Moores wrote:
Try using an absolute path (for "java").
Rob Spoor wrote: Which you can use System.getProperty("java.home") for. Add the bin folder, add the java executable, and you have the full path to the java executable of the currently used JVM.
I used the absolute path for java and it ran for me.
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