Compiling Java code

Overview

  1. Starting Eclipse
  2. Eclipse Workspace
  3. The Workbench
  4. The Java Perspective
  5. Javadoc
  6. Hello World
  7. Compiler Errors
  8. Practice Finding Bugs
  9. Basic Unix commands and the GL network
  10. Compiling Java code
  11. Optional Notes

Compiling code on the command-line

As discussed on the first slide, all the code is contained in the workspace you specified in the home directory. If you followed the example image, your workspace is a folder called CMSC202 in your home directory.

Browse to your project folder (Lab1), then the source code folder (src). In your source folder should be a folder called proj1.

The example below illustrates how to compile your lab1 code directly from a UNIX terminal.

The first step will be to create a directory called /bin, which we do with the following command: 

mkdir bin

Next, we use the javac command to compile the contents of the proj1 directory. 
javac -d bin proj1/*.java

To execute your code, use the command 

java lab1.Lab1
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