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setting JAVA_HOME & CLASSPATH in CentOS 6

I have unpacked my jdk in /usr/java/.

and I put CLASSPATH, PATH, JAVA_HOME into /etc/profile like below.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar

And when I compile some java file in /usr/java/jdk1.0.7_21/bin,

it works. But when I am doing same thing on other folder, it doesn't.

It displays NoClassDefFoundError.

So I have checked ClASSPATH, PATH, JAVA_HOME via echo.

It shows like below.

[root@localhost a]# echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21
[root@localhost a]# echo $PATH
/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/guest/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21/bin:/usr/java/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21/bin
[root@localhost a]# echo $CLASSPATH
/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21/jre/lib/ext:/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21/lib/tools.jar

I want to use java in console, What can I do in this situation?

PS. of couse I did source /etc/profile.

=================The Errors what I'm facing with =======================

when I command java A(My class name is A).

Error: Could not find or load main class A

case I command java -cp /home/guest/workspace/AAA/src/a/ A

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: A (wrong name: a/A)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:791)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
    at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)

=====================full content of my code====================================== java part. path is /usr/guest/workspace/AAA/src/a/A.java

package a;

public class A {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("a!\n");
    }
}

/etc/profile part. left part is default.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar

other parts might be helpful to solve.

  • which java prints "/usr/java/bin". there's symbolic link.
  • My jdk location is /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21. inside of ./bin every code works fine.
  • I did not touch /root/.bash_profile. I just edited /etc/profile.
Solution

  • I created a folder named a in /home/prasanth and copied your code to a file named A.java. I compiled from /home/prasanth as javac a/A.java and run javac a.A. I got output as 

    a!