[DrJava] RE: Having problem compiling (fwd)

[Brian S. <bs...@bs...>]

FYI: Expect that we're going to get a new flood of users of DrJava, since
I submitted DrJava to freshmeat.net. :)

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Graduate student, Rice University Department of Computer Science

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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:44:37 -0500
From: Saeid Banaei <sb...@co...>
To: Brian Stoler <bs...@bs...>
Subject: RE: Having problem compiling

Brian,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, You are right, I am running NT 4.0
server, and I learned about DrJava from www.freshmeat.net website.

Thanks again,
Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Stoler [mailto:bs...@bs...]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:34 AM
To: Saeid Banaei
Cc: ja...@ri...
Subject: Re: Having problem compiling


First, let me say that we're trying to move everything to SourceForge, so
in the future, please file support requests at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=44253&atid=438936

(We have not publicized this yet, however. :))

On your problem: I bet you're running some flavor of Windows. Due to the
way the JDK is installed on Windows (it puts an extra copy of java.exe in
the JRE directory), you probably need to tell DrJava where your
compiler is. (It's in a jar called tools.jar.)

See:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=9158&group_id=44253

for details on how to configure DrJava.

This configuration framework is temporary, and we will have a more
user-friendly one in the next few months.

We're glad you like DrJava, and please feel free to contact us again if
you have any problems or questions.

-brian

PS: Another answer to this problem is to change the association for .jar
files to point to the copy of javaw.exe inside the JDK directory
structure, as opposed to the JRE structure.

PS2: Just curious, where did you hear about DrJava?