RE: ClassPath Woes - What the Heck is happening.

The way Shannon does it is also the way I do it.  I just put a monitor
around it so if the environment variable value already exists my program
happily skips along.  Never had any troubles to date, but I haven't used
Java and RPG together extensively.

Monitor;
  setClasspath();
On-Error *All;
EndMon;

...make my java calls...


Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Morris [mailto:bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:00 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ClassPath Woes - What the Heck is happening.


Shannon O'Donnell wrote:
> 
> When I use Java and RPG together, I've found that I have to explicitly set
> the Classpath environment variable INSIDE the RPG program, using a call to
> QCMDEXC.  When I do that, it finds everything it needs. When I don't, it
> never seems to find the java classes despite my setting the environment
> variable at both the system and job level.
> 

That's very strange, Shannon.  Never heard that one before.  I don't
think I've ever added the CLASSPATH envvar from inside my RPG program.

I can understand the reverse being true, that adding the CLASSPATH
envvar from inside an RPG program *doesn't* have any effect - that could
happen if the JVM had already been started by another RPG program - the
CLASSPATH environment variable is only fetched by RPG runtime when it
has to start the JVM.

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