使用软链接通过-classpath开关导入jar

Question

I think I'm missing something critical related to classpaths, please point me in the right direction,

The import statement

import com.mongodb.Mongo;

The location of the mongodb jar file I'm trying to import. This is a softlink (I can 'cd /baseline/').

/baseline/mongodb/lib/mongo-java-driver-2.12.2.jar

The location where I'm running my test class

/usernameaccount/Desktop/Tester.java

The javac command

javac -classpath "/baseline/mongodb/lib/mongo-java-driver-2.12.2.jar" Tester.java 

The error I get says this

Tester.java:11: error: package baseline.mongodb.lib does not exist
import baseline.mongodb.lib.Mongo;

What am I missing? Thanks for your patience

Answer 1

I think you are mixing two thing. The import statement should include the class location and classpath should point to the location of jar.

change

import baseline.mongodb.lib.Mongo;

to

import com.mongodb.Mongo;

and re-run the program.

Answer 2

By changing the file structure (and thus altering the filepath) I was able to get it to compile and run. Thanks for your help!