When I try running my Java application, it cannot find the main class in the directory I specify.
My application is in this directory:
C:\Users\Cristian\git\tranquil-crag-4851
My main class is in this directory:
C:\Users\Cristian\git\tranquil-crag-4851\target\classes\com\example
My main class is called
Main.class
When I run this command
java -cp target/classes:target/dependency/* com.example.Main
from directory
C:\Users\Cristian\git\tranquil-crag-4851\
the result I get is:
Could not find the main class in com.example.Main
My CLASSPATH variable is set to JAVA_HOME\lib. Can somebody explain to me how to solve this?
1 Answer
The delimiter : works on Unix. You should use ; on Windows instead.
I am not sure that forward slashes work on Windows in this context. Try to use back slashes instead, i.e.
java -cp target\classes;target\dependency\* com.example.Main
If you are using java 1.6 or higher this should work. I mean that * was not supported by previous versions of java.
If something does not work, check the path. Go to the directory where you are running your application, type
dir target\classes
dir target\dependency\
and see that the output of these commands is as expected.
