Cant run java classfiles through command line.

[indigo0086]

I use eclipse to compile and run my programs but when I try to run them via the command line I get "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:"

Now first thing's first, I did look up the problem which all pages pointed to the -classpath option not being set. I properly ran the program with

java -classpath . CipherTest -e FEATHER PlainFile.txt Encrypt.txt

but I still get the error. Anyone knows if this is some thing with eclipse?

The entire error is

C:\Documents and Settings\251070\My Documents\Java\Encryption\bin\Encryption>jav
a -classpath . CipherTest -e FEATHER PlainFile.txt Encrypt.txt
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: CipherTest (wrong nam
e: Encryption/CipherTest)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)

[CornedBee]

Go up one directory, then run

java -classpath . Encryption.CipherTest -e FEATHER PlainFile.txt Encrypt.txt

You have to respect the package hierarchy and Java's class loading mechanism when running applications.

On a side note, it's a pretty much universal convention that package names are all lowercase.

[indigo0086]

ahh, I somehow forgot that I was using packages....odd. I changed the package to lower case btw. Thanks.

This reminds me not to take up Encryption as a hobby.