Question

class HelloWorld
{ 
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    { 
        System.out.println("hey");
    } 
}

Command prompt session:

C:\Users\zobdos\Desktop>javac HelloWorld.java

C:\Users\zobdos\Desktop>dir *.class
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is A45E-7B01

 Directory of C:\Users\zobdos\Desktop

11/20/2010  10:16 AM               417 HelloWorld.class
               1 File(s)            417 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   8,145,432,576 bytes free

C:\Users\zobdos\Desktop>java HelloWorld
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloWorld
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloWorld
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: HelloWorld.  Program will exit.

C:\Users\btolbert\Desktop>

Answer 1

Nevermind, it works after using:

java -classpath . HelloWorld