[ajug-members] why? NoSuchMethodError: main

[jmhigginsth at checkfree.com]

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=736543&messageID=4231071 has
a thread discussing returning an exit code from Java to Unix.  Seems an
oversight to have made such a common script function so complex...

/James



                                                                           
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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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