Setting CLASSPATH 1

[jeanpierre]

I was working on a Java Mail exercise found at

http://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/education/j-javamail/j-javamail-8-4.html

Part of the tutorial involved downloading JavaMail API from Sun. Next I have to set the CLASSPATH to the mail.jar file in the download.

How do I set the CLASSPATH?

Is simply by copying mail jar to \jdk1.3\jre\lib\ext?

Thanks,

JP

 

[rajarajan]

Hi,
There are two ways of doing this.
1) In the command prompt give the command,
SET CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;C:\zipfiles\mail.jar
or
2) While executing your application, you can run it as
java -cp .;c:\zipfiles\mail.jar;..... MailApp

In the ....., fill in all the required jar files.
(Here, I've assumed that your mail.jar is located in the c:\zipfiles directory and the name of your mail application to be MailApp)

Regards,
Rajarajan