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Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main

From Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main
Date 2012-03-21 13:41 -0700
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William Colls wrote:
> I think this is really an Eclipse problem.

Nope.

> When I try to run my program, I get the error message
> 
> NoSuchMethodFound: main
> 
> The file does in fact contain a main method, declared as public static 
> void, with no arguments.

It's a programmer problem.

> I suspect that Eclipse is looking in the wrong place for the method, but 
> in every place that I can find in the various configurations, the file 
> that I am running is identified as the file containing containing the 
> main() method.
> 
> Any suggestions as to where further to look will greatfully [sic] received.
 
Jussi and markspace explained the problem.

I will generalize the answer for you:

Do not suspect Eclipse first. Do not suspect Java first. Always suspect the programmer first.

-- 
Lew

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Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com> - 2012-03-21 10:17 -0400
  Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2012-03-21 16:41 +0200
  Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main markspace <-@.> - 2012-03-21 08:18 -0700
  Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-21 13:41 -0700
  Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-03-21 20:46 -0400
    Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-21 21:00 -0400
      Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-21 21:59 -0700
        Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-03-22 03:13 -0700
          Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-22 21:46 -0400
            Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-22 18:49 -0700
              Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-22 22:17 -0700
    Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com> - 2012-03-23 09:36 -0400
      Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-23 07:51 -0700
        Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-03-23 08:49 -0700
  Re: Eclipse - NoSuchMethodError: main Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-23 18:05 +0100

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