japi2 and Debian ... Japi2.java not found

[Erich Mueller]

erich@santiago:~/cobol$ java -jar /home/erich/cobol/japi/swing/src_java/src/japi2.jar
Fehler: Hauptklasse de.japi.Japi2 konnte nicht gefunden oder geladen werden

Mainclass not found .... but it is !!! there
i.e. folders de and japi and File Japi2.java do exist; moving the .java files to higher folders shows no effect

with JAPI.jar (older version) it works

it looks like everybody uses the windows version so far
is there somebody with LINUX experience ? who has an idea what I m doing wrong ?

btw. japi especially with its wonderful manual is really nice

[Rich Di Iulio]

Erich,

I am using it on Linux Mint and Ubuntu as well as Windows. Make sure the symbol pointing to the directory for Japi2.jar. The symbol is COBJAPI_JAPIJAR_HOME I have attached a script I use to setup use of GnuCOBOL.

Rich Di Iulio

[Erich Mueller]

Rich,
Your script brought me on the way, updated to java-11
and doing more test and I found:
erich@santiago:~$ java -jar "JAPI.jar

^C
erich@santiago:~$ java -jar "japi2.jar"
Error: Unable to access jarfile japi2.jar
erich@santiago:~$ java -jar "japi2.jar

so one inverted comma does the job
thanks a lot Erich

[Erich Mueller]

hoops....
no, that was wrong
" starts java without anything
.I .. keep on testing
Erich

[Rich Di Iulio]

Erich,

I am glad to help someone here. I have received so much help from myself.

I have attached a script that I start/stop/debug the Japi Server. The debug piece is where I within my programs get debug information when I have a problem.

I am developing a application in Windows 10 and Linux, I have similar scripts for both Windows and Linux. The user I am doing this for, only understands Windows. However, I find developing in Linux is cleaner and faster.

Rich

[Anonymous]

Rich
Thanks a lot again I am already using it
but in my case it only works with JAPI
and not with japi2
since having only few experience with Java
... do I have to compile the .java files
in src_java /src? because i still get:
java -jar japi2.jar
Fehler: Hauptklasse de.japi.Japi2 konnte nicht gefunden oder geladen werden
Ursache: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: de.japi.Japi2

Thans Erich

[Erich Mueller]

Rich
I think a found something:
I have 2 japi2.jar files
swing/src_java/dist 475959 byte
swing/src_java/ 1.412.284 byte
which are you using ?
Thanks Erich

[Rich Di Iulio]

Erich,

I am using the one in swing/src_java/japi2.jar. This morning I tried the one in the dist directory and that did not work. Have you compiled the examples in the examples_simple?

Rich

[László Erdős]

Hi,

in SVN there are 3 same files with the size 475.959 bytes, and you should have the same in SVN.

\gnucobol-contrib\trunk\tools\cobjapi\SWING\src_java\JAPI.jar
\gnucobol-contrib\trunk\tools\cobjapi\SWING\src_java\japi2.jar
\gnucobol-contrib\trunk\tools\cobjapi\SWING\src_java\dist\japi2.jar

The JAPI2 has a NetBeans project configuration, and I compile it with NetBeans IDE 8.2.
After compile the file will be created in "dist", then I copy it under src_java.
Earlier (AWT Japi) was named it as JAPI.jar, therefore I copy japi2.jar into JAPI.jar also.
But all the same.

Last time I tested it only on Windows with cygwin, and not with Linux.

László

[Erich Mueller]

Hi Rich, László
my japi2.jar from ../dist works fine now
Yes I compiled all the examples and they worked out of the box but with JAPI.jar
which is - as I understood - the older version.

At the moment evrything is o.k
Thanks for your help Erich