Re: Problems locating class File when Executing from RPG

> Has anyone else also been able to set the default JVM to point to 1.42
> rather than 1.3 which is the default.  I've tried various solutions posted
> such as setting the variable in system.properties but this DOES not work.
> The only solution I've found so far is to preface the JVM version on the
> javac line.  (eg. javac -K=Djava.version=1.4  myapp.java).



We have a v5r2 with JDK1.3 and 1.42 installed.
/QIBM/UserData/Java400/SystemDefault.properties contains an item
java.version=1.4.

 This seems to work. 'java -version' in qsh gives "java version "1.4.2""



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pekrzyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: Problems locating class File when Executing from RPG


> Hi:
>
> I am running into a problem that I can't see a solution to.  It has to do
> with visibility of a Java Class from multiple users.
>
> For example:  I developed a Java app. in my home directory and it resides
> in '/home/MYDIR' on the AS400.
> (MYDIR) is my login name.  When I use qshell I automatically get placed
> into MYDIR directory.
>
> The second user also has a directory in '/home' (set to their login name).
>
> We have given each other full permissions to each other's directory and
> also set the permissions on each file.
> We set the CLASSPATH to point to the Java class located within my
> directory.  The second user can not access the class
> and the RPG program fails with class not found error.  When we move the
> Java class into the second user's folder, the
> RPG application runs fine.  From a Windows explorer the second user can
> see all the files in my directory and can copy them freely
> into their own directory. (This indicates to me that they have sufficient
> permissions to see the files.)  We also checked the
> execution rights, and this was all setup properly.
>
> We double checked that the CLASSPATH was set properly in the second users
> environment.
> We have a third user, that does not have a directory in '/home'.  When
> this user sets the same CLASSPATH, the application
> runs fine from my directory.
>
> It almost seems that if a user directory exists in '/home', this overrides
> any CLASSPATH setting.  Has anyone else run into this.
> We've been banging our heads on this to try a come up with a solution.
> We are running V5r2.
>
> Has anyone else also been able to set the default JVM to point to 1.42
> rather than 1.3 which is the default.  I've tried various solutions posted
> such as setting the variable in system.properties but this DOES not work.
> The only solution I've found so far is to preface the JVM version on the
> javac line.  (eg. javac -K=Djava.version=1.4  myapp.java).  This is a big
> pain in the butt to constantly have to type this in.
>
> ...Paul