Java, please stop ruining my fun

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by jmtulloss • 17 years ago

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Classpaths! Brutal!

vannevar• 17 years ago

I think the classpath problem is the number 1 reason Java failed on the desktop. Sun would've been much better off freezing the core language at Java 2 and solving the classpath problem than wasting all that time since then cluttering up the core with unnecessary features.

ihumanable2• 17 years ago

Unless I'm missing something, can't you just define a classpath and put your jars in there, then javac will look there first. I did all of my development work in Eclipse and it did a lot of the heavy lifting to give you nifty things like incremental compilation and build management.

jmtulloss• 17 years ago

The fact that you need eclipse to manage things bothers me to no end. I realize that Visual Studio is pretty much a requirement in the .NET world, but all the tools are also accessible from the command line and VS ties into the default build tools, unlike eclipse.

ihumanable2• 17 years ago

Eclipse hooks into your command line java compiler, that's why you define it in your preferences. There is also an environment variable CLASSPATH that you can set that the javac command-line command will use to resolve jar locations

Java, please stop ruining my fun

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