We have to create only the src directory. (Because I am working on Windows, here is the win-syntax - translate to your shell):
md src
The following simple Java class just prints a fixed message out to STDOUT, so just write this code into src\oata\HelloWorld.java .
package oata; public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World"); } }
Now just try to compile and run that:
md build\classes javac -sourcepath src -d build\classes src\oata\HelloWorld.java java -cp build\classes oata.HelloWorld
which will result in
Hello World
Creating a jar-file is not very difficult. But creating a startable jar-file needs more steps: create a manifest-file containing the start class, creating the target directory and archiving the files.
echo Main-Class: oata.HelloWorld>myManifest md build\jar jar cfm build\jar\HelloWorld.jar myManifest -C build\classes . java -jar build\jar\HelloWorld.jar
Note: Do not have blanks around the >-sign in the echo Main-Class instruction because it would falsify it!