Java difficulties (setting up a java work box)
 

Hey, I'm a Gr 12 Computer science student and I'm trying to get a computer up for _just_ JAVA. The problem is, I've tried 5 distros (Kubuntu, Vector, Feather, Gentoo, and Ubuntu) and none work well enough for me to not die from having a heart attack.

I am running Eclipse 3.1.1 on a Gentoo box, and it works ok, but if I compile in Eclipse and open a console and try '$ java blah.class' I get the following error.

$ java blah.class
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: blah/class

This also happens on the Java box (currently Ubuntu) that I'm trying to set up.

On Windows I _used_ JCreator (I can't log into the school's network anymore -- uses Windows 2000 :cry: ). JCreator allowed me to just hit run and it opened a terminal. The problem I'm having is in Eclipse is that I can't do this; it gives me an error because I tried to run it with a config for an old project. I hate having to set up a profile for a project just to run it. (This is why I'm trying to use the bash terminal)

PLEASE HELP ME GET THE PERFECT SETUP SO I CAN BE MORE PRODUCTIVE (I'm a couple assignments behind)!

> $ java blah.class

you do not want to type the .class on the file name.. just use the class name..
ex.
$java blah

$ java blah
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: blah

:p

$ java testIO
5
5


You're the best

Plus I found that Kate has Java capabilities. It colours the syntax AND has a build in terminal that goes to the .java directory automatically!

Anyways, thanks again