Compiling Your First Java Application

We’re now ready to compile and execute our program. We assume you’re using the Java Development Kit’s command-line tools, not an IDE. To help you compile and run your programs in an IDE, we provide online Dive Into® videos for the popular IDEs Eclipse, NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA. These are located on the book’s website:

http://www.deitel.com/books/jhtp10

To prepare to compile the program, open a command window and change to the directory where the program is stored. Many operating systems use the command cd to change directories. On Windows, for example,

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cd c:\examples\ch02\fig02_01

changes to the fig02_01 directory. On UNIX/Linux/Max OS X, the command

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