[coyne20]

Alot of people end up posting problems regarding java. I thought it would be good to mention some pre-requisite
checks before posting:

1. Ensure that you are using JVM 1.5.0_xx or greater.
2. Please ensure that you have correctly assigned class path and a java home environment variable.
3. Any code written, compiled and executed should be done so within an IDE (Eclipse is recommended).

Following these rules will make it easier for the person trying to resolve your programming problem.

Many Thanks

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3. Any code written, compiled and executed should be done so within an IDE (Eclipse is recommended).

Not quite. I can write the code in notepad, open cmd, go to the path where the .java is, use "javac path" to compile the program and then use "java path" to execute it. You do have to set the path of java sdk (Example: C:\Program Files\Java\...) before doing it unless you set it perminently. So, an IDE it's not necessary but makes the programmer's life easier since it controls indents, the errors are friendlier, etc...

But it does make it easier for a programmer to use an IDE like you said. NetBeans is another free alternative.

[Sockdown]

3. Any code written, compiled and executed should be done so within an IDE (Eclipse is recommended).

Not quite. I can write the code in notepad, open cmd, go to the path where the .java is, use "javac path" to compile the program and then use "java path" to execute it. You do have to set the path of java sdk (Example: C:\Program Files\Java\...) before doing it unless you set it perminently. So, an IDE it's not necessary but makes the programmer's life easier since it controls indents, the errors are friendlier, etc...

But it does make it easier for a programmer to use an IDE like you said. NetBeans is another free alternative.

[coyne20]

3. Any code written, compiled and executed should be done so within an IDE (Eclipse is recommended).

Not quite. I can write the code in notepad, open cmd, go to the path where the .java is, use "javac path" to compile the program and then use "java path" to execute it. You do have to set the path of java sdk (Example: C:\Program Files\Java\...) before doing it unless you set it perminently. So, an IDE it's not necessary but makes the programmer's life easier since it controls indents, the errors are friendlier, etc...

But it does make it easier for a programmer to use an IDE like you said. NetBeans is another free alternative.

Using the cmd prompt and typing in both javac and java seems to be the long way around. Eclipse and Netbeans IDE takes care of all the adhoc duties. This leaves the programmer free to focus on getting the code right, bug free and running quickly.

[Sockdown]

Well, yeah. That's true. But, it not a bad idea to practice with it. I would only need to do 4 things lol.

(1)Open cmd prompt and move to the directory
(2)Set the path to sdk
(3)javac path
(4)java path

And done.
But the errors are hard to interpret and finding the line and correcting it it's harder. Especially when it's more than 1,000 lines of code.
But for very simple programs, else, IDE. Anyway, the industry uses IDE's.

Edited by Sockdown, 16 March 2009 - 08:23 AM.

[coyne20]

Well, yeah. That's true. But, it not a bad idea to practice with it. I would only need to do 4 things lol.

(1)Open cmd prompt and move to the directory
(2)Set the path to sdk
(3)javac path
(4)java path

And done.
But the errors are hard to interpret and finding the line and correcting it it's harder. Especially when it's more than 1,000 lines of code.
But for very simple programs, else, IDE. Anyway, the industry uses IDE's.

I thought it would be good to make their lives alot easier w/o having to resort to the notepad or dos prompts. Yet again it is good to learn how to do it manually on a simple individual class file but not for larger / numerous packages.

[Sockdown]

Yeah, you're right. it will make their lives easier. But it's an alternative heh. I had to do a WebCrawler for my DataStructures class and had 8 classes. Had to do it with notepad only. But yeah, those two Eclipse and NetBeans are awesome free IDE alternatives to all the mess it could be to do it manually.

[coyne20]

One final thing, any methods defined should ideally have some form of exception handling. There are 2 ways to do this:

eg 1. Declare it at the method signature as shown:

public void someMethod() throws Exception
{
// your implementation goes here.
}

eg 2. Insert try,catch, finally blocks within the body of your implementation:

public void someMethod2()
{
try{






}
catch(specific exception e)
{

}







}