i've written a small program to output the number of arguments that
have been passed to it.  for example, if the program was called from
the command line with "java Test a a a", it'd output 3.  atleast that's
what i think it should be doing.  here's the program:

public class Test
{
    public static void main (String[] args)
    {
        System.out.println("args.length = "+args.length);
    }
}

no matter the number of command line arguments i pass to it, i always
get 0 as the length of the args array.  is there something special i
have to do when compiling it, or soemthing, to let command line
arguments be passed to java programs?

any help would be appreciated - thanks!