I'd like to buy this book, but I can't get the examples to run. I followed the instructions in the readme.html and compiled the files for chap 3 successfully. But I can't run the test.

Here is my dos output on Windows XP professional (with my jvm at C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_07):

First I followed the book instructions and entered:

C:\BeginAlgorithms>java -classpath junit.jar:main:test junit.textui.TestRunner com.wrox.algorithms.l
ists.ArrayListTest
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: junit/textui/TestRunner

Then I tried specifying the classpath like so:
C:\BeginAlgorithms>set CLASSPATH=C:\BeginAlgorithms\junit.jar;C:\BeginAlg orithms\test

And I got the following:

C:\BeginAlgorithms>java junit.textui.TestRunner com.wrox.algorithms.lists.ArrayListTest
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/wrox/algorithms/iteration/IteratorOut
OfBoundsException
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
        at junit.runner.StandardTestSuiteLoader.load(Standard TestSuiteLoader.java:11)
        at junit.runner.BaseTestRunner.loadSuiteClass(BaseTes tRunner.java:193)
        at junit.runner.BaseTestRunner.getTest(BaseTestRunner .java:86)
        at junit.textui.TestRunner.start(TestRunner.java:171)
        at junit.textui.TestRunner.main(TestRunner.java:138)

Any suggestions? Thanks. If you help me figure it out, I'll buy the book!

I discovered the problem. I just needed to change the colons after the java -classpath command to semicolons(i.e. "junit.jar:main:test" needed to be "junit.jar;main;test" under Windows). I guess the colons are meant for unix. Sorry. I'm a newbie. Anyway, I'm off to get what looks like an excellent book. Maybe in a later edition you could have a parenthetical warning for newbies in the readme.html that colons need to be semicolons under Windows.

At the risk of being overly polite, thanks for the help I'm sure I would've received!

Hi,

You just beat me to it. I was going to suggest exactly that, glad it worked out for you.

Cheers,

Simon

I was just looking at this book and I am new to programming but I could not compile the code. I
unziped the files on lunix.
I have ~/java/Beginning Algorithms/Beginning Algorithms/*
       ~/java/junit3.8.1/junit.jar
CLASSPATH= ~/java/junit3.8.1
  Do I move junit.jar ~/java/Beginning Algorithms/Beginning Algorithms/* ?
I do I make
javac -classpath junit.jar -sourcepath main test/com/wrox/algorithms/lists/*.java
and
java -classpath junit.jar:main:test junit.textui.TestRunner com.wrox.algorithms.lists.ArrayListTest
to work ?

 I was just looking at this book and I am new to programming but I could not compile the code. I
unziped the files on lunix.
I have ~/java/Beginning Algorithms/Beginning Algorithms/*
       ~/java/junit3.8.1/junit.jar
CLASSPATH= ~/java/junit3.8.1
  Do I move junit.jar ~/java/Beginning Algorithms/Beginning Algorithm
How do I make the readme.html work?
javac -classpath junit.jar -sourcepath main test/com/wrox/algorithms/lists/*.java
and
java -classpath junit.jar:main:test junit.textui.TestRunner com.wrox.algorithms.lists.ArrayListTest

hi there

don't worry, be programmer