This is standard Java, I don't think this is something we should be explaining, as it's done in hundreds of places around the net.Okay, many thanks for this. Firstly, I apologise if I am asking these questions in the wrong place, I don't want to waste people's time but it is *very* frustrating for new users when problems like this occur. I scoured the documentation, the quick-start guide, the faqs and searched on the internet but could find no help. From some of the responses I have received from the various sources it seems that I am not the only person hitting these issues. Secondly, it looks like my error is that I set the CLASSPATH to point at the directories, .../JAR and .../JAR/lib, not each individual .jar file as in your batch file. I had tried it with just the small set of .jars that you have and, as far as I can tell, the only difference is using the directories in the CLASSPATH variable. I'll change that in mine and see what happens but I can compile and run the example you sent which is fantastic.
np, stupid Qs are allowed (we get lots of them), but you have to expect a bit ot stick with them - call it character building ;) Good luck.Many thanks again and sorry for being stupid.
Mark Proctor wrote:sigh.... I've zipped up droools-examples eclipse project with a populated lib directory and a dos .bat file. Should be enough to get you over the basics of java classpath configuration: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/PageInfo.jsp?page=JBossRules%2Fdrools-examples-401-runfib.zip Mark MarkA wrote:I'm close to giving up! No matter what I do I get the noclassdeffound error. I can't get anything that uses Drools to work outside of eclipse. I've now tried using javac and I still get errors, the first is: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [javac] [search path for source files: [/Users/mark/Documents/eclipse/drools-test-mini/src]] [javac] [search path for class files: [... (lots of paths removed) ... /Users/mark/Documents/eclipse/drools-test-mini/JAR ...]] ... [javac] /Users/mark/Documents/eclipse/drools-test-mini/src/com/mda/dt/DroolsTest.java:6: package org.drools does not exist [javac] import org.drools.RuleBase; [javac] ^ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But the directory '/Users/mark/Documents/eclipse/drools-test-mini/JAR' has the following: antlr-runtime-3.0.jar drools-compiler-4.0.1.jar mvel14-1.2rc4rv908.jar xpp3_min-1.1.3.4.O.jar core-3.2.3.v_686_R32x.jar drools-core-4.0.1.jar xercesImpl-2.4.0.jar xstream-1.2.2.jar drools-ant-4.0.1.jar jxl-2.4.2.jar xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar The org.drools.RuleBase is in the drools-core jar file so what is it that I am doing wrong?_______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users