I'm using Notepad++ to learn Java. I have it set it up to compile and run Java from the Run menu, only that I have been coding small exercises without external libraries, I know I have to use -classpath
to tell the compiler what library to use, but I was wondering if there is any way to tell the compiler to "use" the libraries in the lib directory of my current project.
Thanks.
Turns out that you can put any jar file into the ext folder (C:\Program Files\java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext
and C:\Program Files\java\jre6\lib\ext
) and java will automatically considered it part of the classpath, check it out: ext directory: Java Glossary
Dirty but it does what I need.