Hello and thanking everyone helping out there!! You guys have no idea how much of appriciation me and my firend's got for everyone's whose helping out in this site!!
Anyway.....
I need to know if anyone could tell me a way to compile my java programs without giving the javac path....like
/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_07/bin/javac HelloWorld.java
.....
i have just installed java. And its a bit of time taking by giving the whole path like i had typed above. Could someone give me an idea to straight forwardly make it to understand the "javac" and "java" commands from the command prompt....i.e
azzath@d_hyper java_programs]$ javac
bash: javac: command not found
without getting this error message...
Thanks in advance.

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anyone who is trying to install java then hopefully this site would help i guess, cuz i got help from this site.
http://home.bredband.no/gaulyk/java...javaredhat.html

aliasing the command in your rc file should be painless...

edit:
alias javac='/path/to/javac'

What may be an even better bet is to add it to your path. If you use bash, open up your /etc/profile
then where it says:
PATH=/bunch/of:/different/paths
add on
:/opt/jdk-1.5/bin
or whatever the path is to your java bin directory.
Or in some start up file add
PATH=$PATH:/path/to/java/bin
export PATH

Guys tank you for your replies,
But i prefer what 95SE said, that is editing the path,
I did an emacs to profile script & the i found it as this..
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games

so how do i fix the "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jdk*/bin/" bit into this?

Thanx mate.
Azzath.

you can just put the line "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/java/jdk*/bin/" at the end of /etc/profile. $PATH in the command contains all the previous path added in /etc/profile including /usr/games.