Question

I am creating a Jetty project, as a learning experience. I’m 15 and just exploring the programming world and looking to find something I like, and taking in as much information as I can along the way.

I have just started creating my Jetty server following this tutorial, http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Tutorial/Jetty_HelloWorld

I have reached the final step and am trying to start my server with

java -cp jetty-all.jar:servlet-api-2.5.jar HelloWorld

I am trying to run it on a Mac and this is my error message

Error: Could not find or load main class HelloWorld

Does anyone know what could be causing this? I have already compiled the HelloWorld.java file and used

javac -cp servlet-api-2.5.jar:jetty-all.jar HelloWorld.java

Can anyone help with this issue?

Thanks in advance. I just need to be pointed in the right direction here. 🙂

-Henry Harris

Answer 1

If you did the javac command as the tutorial, try this command line…

java -cp jetty-all.jar:servlet-api-2.5.jar:. HelloWorld

Notice the extra :. piece, that will also use the current directory to find the HelloWorld.class file.