can't find package that is in jar file

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chris - 14 Apr 2004 23:42 GMT

So there is a package in /somedir/somewhere/stuff.jar

If I look in stuff.jar I see subdirs like this:

/com/mycompany/connection/*.class

My CLASSPATH has /somedir/somewhere in it, and my code has this import statement:

import com.mycompany.connection.*

But yet I get an error when I try to compile with "javac mycode.java"

package com.mycompany.connection does not exist

What on Earth is going on here? I'm using java 1.4.2. Thanks.

chris

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Chris Smith - 15 Apr 2004 00:26 GMT

> So there is a package in /somedir/somewhere/stuff.jar
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> What on Earth is going on here? I'm using java 1.4.2. Thanks.

Your classpath needs the whole JAR file, "/somedir/somewhere/stuff.jar".
Including "/somedir/somewhere" in your classpath tells the Java compiler
that the class might be in a file called
"/somedir/somewhere/com/mycompany/connection/ClassName.class"... which,
of course, it is not.

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Roedy Green - 16 Apr 2004 00:06 GMT

>My CLASSPATH has /somedir/somewhere in it, and my code has this import statement:

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/classpath.html

Note especially what you must do to get it to look in jar files. You
DON'T just put jars somewhere on the classpath.

There are two techniques -- the ext directory -- easiest, and adding
individual jars to the classpath.

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