Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: How to import - newbie question. Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:39:14 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <6a6f9585-5605-4041-af1a-61d7e5225cea@u7g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:34:22 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="yplGUUrGzpiV4sv58weMcA"; logging-data="23944"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ktwBUKoEx44DnCEFcBA0o9K9Lp79UsD4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:fijhEExOLr0fNm12Hhpmt1OjoyQ= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.help:792 On 06/19/2011 06:28 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote: > On 06/19/2011 05:27 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> On 6/19/2011 4:48 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote: >>> On 06/19/2011 07:05 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote: >>>> On 06/19/2011 12:41 AM, leegold wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I wondered if anyone could help with what probably is very basic >>>>> configuration. I want to explore a java app called htmlunit. I >>>>> downloaded the zip and took all the (jar) files from the zip's lib >>>>> folder and put them in the directory: /home/myhome/htmlunit. I'm using >>>>> Linux...I have tried for a long time to import them into a java >>>>> program with no luck. I have read many tutorials about packages, >>>>> classpath still no luck. Here are are the files. How do I import them >>>>> and use them , I'm lost: >>>>> >>>> The "no luck" part is unhelpful. >>>> >>>> Prepare a short example source file, >>>> , >>>> >>>> try to compile it, >>>> >>>> post back here with your command line and any error messages. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> A SSCCE: >>> >>> package scratch; >>> >>> import org.apache.commons.logging.Log; >>> import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory; >>> >>> public class Scratch { >>> >>> private Log log = LogFactory.getLog(Scratch.class); >>> >>> } >>> >>> A command line to try: >>> javac -classpath /home/myhome/htmlunit/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar >>> Scratch.java >> >> You seem to have missed the "and any error messages". More generally, >> even if there are no error messages, you should say what happened. >> > > No, I posted the line, "post back here with your command line and any > error messages.". > When I attempted to compile the above SSCCE with the command line: > javac -classpath /usr/share/java/commons-logging.jar Scratch.java, > it compiled without error. > > And yep, it was a reply to my own post. :)