Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed1.swip.net!news.astraweb.com!border5.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 15:19:19 -0600 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:19:07 +0000 From: lipska the kat Organization: Trollbusters 3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: error discription and solution References: <7ad4a15c-7e35-4d08-a61f-4d673f5d4ef0@googlegroups.com> <081fg9thirl4u17mdbeq8q3oocgtbakr7t@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-3pHAGIYitblYdcrnp9H2S9zJPLr/Osn5hx+MoEJWLPp6NBAXnFis6kHwX4Q2iVSeMqITAdE0IO35Z7f!EPDeTkos3T912GtYQZqeHNisgjsXJ1+vcRE5UA/pWD/GO1CmtbbmMVcvmuiFsY3H88cXk6DjljIR X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2526 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27604 On 26/02/14 20:26, Joerg Meier wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:30:12 +0000, lipska the kat wrote: > >> Agreed, classpath confusions notwithstanding, (which IME can cause a lot >> of problems to noobs) Apache commons stuff is not so bad, you can get to >> the commons site and track down the relevant jar easily enough but >> trying to figure out which jar contains >> com.foobar.hidden.widget.PoopScoop and where to get it is a different >> matter altogether. > > Jarfinder is helpful in these scenarios, although unless you are stuck in > the dark ages I recommend searching the Maven repository for the classname > before anything else. I looked at Maven once. As soon as it started 'updating' itself I shut it down, un-installed it and never went near that abomination again :-) I just don't trust anything that connects to a remote server without my explicit say so. -- Lipska the KatŠ: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer, treacherous feline and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun GNU/Linux user #560883 - http://www.linuxcounter.net