Most Clojure tooling, including lein, run programs by constructing a big classpath out of the dependency tree and then passing that as a command-line argument to java. On Windows this can be ...

The Java classpath has always been a source of frustration and confusion, despite its seemingly simple concepts. This article demonstrates a simple tool for unambiguously identifying which Java ...

I know how to setup the CLASSPATH (My Computer-Properties-Advanced-Environment Variables), but what I want to know is, how do you set the CLASSPATH if one of the directories has a space in the ...

Uber-fast, ultra-lightweight Java classpath scanner. Scans the classpath by parsing the classfile binary format directly rather than by using reflection. (Reflection causes the classloader to load ...

In a previous blog posting , I listed some "everyday problems" Java developers will often face and included some ideas and links related to addressing these issues. One of the focal points of that ...

The Eclipse Foundation has just announced the release of a new version of the Eclipse Buildship project, which integrates the Gradle build tool with Eclipse. Version 2.2 supports Java 9 and introduces ...

A prerequisite for this course is that you know Java. And an important indicator is that you can set your Java class path. If you need a refresher, read this How to Set your Classpath and setting ...