Can't run java In Wondow XP

Well I am having quite the same strange problem,

but for apps, and I'm finding weird how Windows XP deals with CLASSPATH. One shouldn't have to type:

-cp .

Despite we (at least I did) declared (CLASSPATH, PATH, JAVA_HOME) in my "Enviroment variables" (look below) when I run the command prompt (cmd.exe) it does not run the classes straight, it says:

"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:"

Then I need to run with: java -cp %CLASSPATH% ....

and it runs. Shouldn't the system recover the CLASSPATH automatically?

Strange when I go into command prompt and press "set"

it reports the PATH, CLASSPATH just as declared...

Do you think my enviroment variables are too large for the memory?

Another weird thing is that, in my opinion, should be enough to declare

in the classpath only the folders where the .jar libraries were

and not declaring each .jar file...

the JVM should scan them for the libraries automatically, but it does not happens!!

Look how I have to set my PATH and CLASSPATH for it to find them as example:

CLASSPATH=.;C:\j2sdk140\lib\;C:\j2sdk140\lib\tools.jar;C:\j2sdk140\lib\servlet.jar;C:\j2sdk140\lib\jspengine.jar;C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1\lib\ext\QTJava.zip;C:\j2sdk140\lib\xt.jar;C:\j2sdk140\lib\sax.jar;C:\j2sdk140\lib\dom4j.jar;C:\j2sdk140\lib\xt.jar;C:\j2sdk140\lib\xp.jar;C:\j2sdk140\lib\saxon.jar;

PATH=%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\j2sdk140\bin;c:\j2sdk140\lib;c:\jswdk101;c:\jswdk101\lib;C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AUTODE~1;D:\PROGRA~2\BC5\BIN;

Don't you find it strange? Is it my mistake?

What can I do to avoid to type -cp %CLASSPATH% everytime

when running apps from XP command prompt (cmd.exe)?

Many Thanks

Al.

almarton at 2007-7-1 16:57:42 >