[ajug-members] why? NoSuchMethodError: main

[Ron Cordell]

It's possible in C#, but I don't think it was ever possible in Java...

On 8/9/07, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone. int was the problem.
>
> I must be losing my mind. I could swear I've done this successfully
> before.
> Was this EVER possible in Java (perhaps back in the 1.1 days)?
>
> On Thursday 09 August 2007 1:19 pm, Salman Khatri wrote:
> > And if you really want to return an error code back to the shell, you
> > can do so through java.lang.System.exit(n). If I am not mistaken, your
> > method becomes:
> >
> > public static void main(String[] args) {
> >       System.exit(new MakeConfigs.doMain(args));
> > }
> >
> >
> > Java always returns '0' on a normal, exception-less conclusion of your
> > program. It seems to return '1' on an exception. Please note that when
> > you run java without any parameters, it shows command line help and
> > returns a '0'.
> >
> > Jeremy Haile wrote:
> > > It needs to be "public static void main(String[] args)"
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Jeremy
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:24:51 -0400, "Tim Watts" <timtw at earthlink.net>
> > >
> > > said:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I'm getting this when I run my utilty:
> > >>
> > >>    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main
> > >>
> > >> The class has:
> > >>
> > >>    public static int main(String[] args) {
> > >>            return new MakeConfigs.doMain(args);
> > >>    }
> > >>
> > >> The class is public:
> > >>
> > >>    public class MakeConfigs {...
> > >>
> > >> And it's in the classpath (otherwise I wouldn't even get this error,
> of
> > >> course).
> > >>
> > >> I tried java -verbose... and it just tells me what jar it found the
> > >> class in.
> > >> I'm running under jdk 1.5, it's compiled for 1.4
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas what could be going on?
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