[Jython-users] AttributeError when instantiating

[Cory R. <cri...@th...>]

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to load my jars on the fly and 
reading through the archives I've found lots of similar questions but 
nothing I've tried has worked. Here's the scenario-

I've downloaded and installed jython-2.1. I have a directory 
C:\somewhere\lib with some jars in it. One of these jars has 
com.something.MyClass.class in it. I don't have a CLASSPATH environment 
variable or anything like that.

So, I start jython using the jython.bat file. Then:
 >>> import sys
 >>> sys.add_extdir("C:/somewhere/lib")
 >>> import com.something
 >>> x = com.something.MyClass()
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: java package 'com.something' has no attribute 'MyClass'

MyClass is public.I can also do this:
 >>> dir(com.something)
['ISomething', 'MyClass', 'MyClass2', '__name__']

So jython knows about MyClass. Any idea what I need to do?

Thanks.