Re: RUNJVA problems

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So if a create a "Petesjava" folder and move the JDBCPopulate.class file 
to that folder, it will then run?  Hmmm.  Not sure if I understand why 
that would work but I'll give it a whirl.

Pete

Clapham, Paul wrote:
> This sounds familiar. Is /QIBM/ProdData/OS400/Java400/ in the Java extensions 
> directory? I can't remember. If so, then classes loaded from there can't see 
> classes in the classpath (because they are loaded by a class loader that's only 
> looking at the extensions directory). So your JDBCPopulate class is in the 
> extensions directory and the jt400.jar isn't, so JDBCPopulate can't load 
> classes from jt400.jar.
>
> It took me about 3 days to figure out what was going on when that happened to 
> me. Pretty much cured me of the lazy habit of throwing jars into the extensions 
> directory to avoid explicitly naming them in the classpath. (Although that 
> isn't exactly what happened here.) Moral of the story in this case would be to 
> put your source code and compiled classes in your own directories and not in 
> IBM's.
>
> PC2
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