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| From | Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: CLI Java Glitch |
| Date | 2011-06-22 20:00 +0100 |
| Organization | Stack Usenet News Service |
| Message-ID | <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106221950030.10728@urchin.earth.li> (permalink) |
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Nigel Wade wrote: > On 21/06/11 22:49, Tom Anderson wrote: >> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Esmond Pitt wrote: >> >>> On 21/06/2011 8:09 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: >>> >>>> The Java language system does case-sensitive comparisons between class >>>> names and the files that contain them when checking that a class name >>>> matches the file name that contains it >>> >>> Nitpicking, but it doesn't really do that, does it. It opens a .class >>> file of the name the user specified, loads the class(es) it contains, >>> and tries to find the classname it was looking for among those >>> classes. It doesn't explicitly compare the filename and the classname. >>> The operating system gave it HelloWorld.class in response to >>> 'helloworld.class' because that's how the OS file system happened to >>> work. >> >> The way Java does this at the moment means that 'java helloworld', >> where there is no class 'helloworld', does different things on Windows >> depending on whether there is a class HelloWorld, hElLoWoRlD, >> HelloworlD, etc. > > Does it? What different thing does it do? To clarify, i meant that it does different things in these three situations: (1) helloworld exists (2) HelloWorld, hElLoWoRlD, HelloworlD, or similar exists (3) no class case-insensitively called helloworld exists I think that cases (2) and (3) should do the same thing. Or, as you describe it: > Java actually throws ClassNotFoundException in all cases, on all OS, > just as it should. The only difference is that in a case-insensitive > filesystem Java actually opens the case-insensitive filename before it > discovers that it does not contain the class required. On case-sensitive > filesystems the correct case filename won't be found. The actual result > is the same in both cases, a ClassNotFoundException. Now, this is where i think i've gone wrong. Back when i used Windows, java did *not* do the same thing in cases (2) and (3). For the nonexistent file in (3), it would throw a NoClassDefFoundError. But for the misnamed file in (2), it would throw something else - a ClassFormatError, i think. It seems that this has been fixed without me noticing, and i failed to interpret Gene's original post correctly. If this is the case, then i withdraw my complaint entirely! tom -- It is a formal cultural policy to show unreasonable bias towards any woman who is both attractive and weird.
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