Same problems again !!


Recently a group of fresh engineers joined our team. These young people are bubbling with so much excitement and enthusiasm, it is such a pleasure to welcome a new group in. But with all the hurly-burly come those typical problems that people bring to me (or whosoever they find free, I must be the laziest guy around :-) ).
A regular feature when new people are put on to work in Java is the problem of their code not being able to find corresponding jar files in the CLASSPATH. Now they swear that their path settings are correct and that they have put in correct libraries at the right places. YES, most of the times they are right !! What they fail to check is that at times their libraries are corrupted and that is a good reason for javac not being able to find the required classes.

More often then not the problem boils down to downloading libraries using ftp in ASCII mode (ftp is not extensively used in colleges so people are not used to it).

I am blogging this because today some one came to me with a similar problem, before he completed mouthing his issues, I had him running back and downloading the file again :-)) ! It never fails to amaze me how every one makes this one mistake at least once in this line of work. (Many do it again.... now thats bizzare!)

PS: I am also trying to shorten my posts, this one seems OK.

Comments

Anonymous said…
coderead your posts before you post.
Friday, June 16, 2006 5:23:00 PM
naunidh said…
Whats so bad !! :).. boxer
Friday, June 16, 2006 8:52:00 PM
Anonymous said…
But with all the hurly-burly comes those typical problems that people bring to me (or whosoever they find free, I must be the laziest guy around :-) ).
The(a?) regular feature when new people are put on to work in Java ... YES, most of the times they are right !! What they fail to check is that at times their libraries are corrupted and that is a good reason for javac not being able to find the required classes.
...
! It just fails to amaze me(wtf?) how every one makes this one mistake at least once in this line-of-work(i don't think the hyphens should be coming here). (Many do it again.... now thats bizzare!)
Monday, July 03, 2006 8:34:00 PM
naunidh said…
Thanx dude..modified as per your suggestions...I will start blogging again once I get internet at home..it's a pain to blog from office, due to lack of time and too much supervision :)
Tuesday, July 04, 2006 11:55:00 AM
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