Using Java in Windows Command Prompt
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008It seems that the Java Runtime Environment installer doesn’t automatically add the binary path of java and javac to the system environment variables, so the ‘java’ and ‘javac’ commands can’t be used without a path. For example, when you type “javac test.java” while in your test project directory, you might get the following message:
‘javac’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
The solution to this problem is pretty simple and should take less than two minutes to solve, so let’s solve it… (more…)