In a previous blog posting , I listed some "everyday problems" Java developers will often face and included some ideas and links related to addressing these issues. One of the focal points of that ...

The JARs, .class files, and other resources specified on a command-line classpath using -classpath or -cp are typically not the only resources on an application’s classpath.

You'd either include the paths in your invocations of javac and java with the -cp command line switch, or if you're using a build tool or IDE, it'll have its own method of managing the classpath.

I'm in a Java class that requires us to use JDK1.3.1. The way that we are suppossed to compile is to use the command line and type: javac *.java within the C:\\jdk1.3.1_01\\bin directory. I'm ...