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I was trying to test if a class I wrote would work by using another program with a main() statement, I was trying to call it but it couldnt find it. both of these files were saved in the same directory and my created class did compile. What gives? My classpath was messed up. lets say I'm compiling ...

I should have put at the very beginning of my program one important line
The line?
import java.awt.Rectangle;

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I just started out with java, and I must say so far all I've seen is a lot of errors regarding classpath, and path settings in the windows environment variables. Why anyone would choose to subject a beginner to this kind of stocus tauri is beyond me. I installed the jdk properly but no classpath ...