How to compile a JavaBean?

Question

Hi All, I'm a student and a newbie when it comes to Java web technologies such as JavaBeans, Servlets and JSP etc. So please bare with me on this one

At the moment I'm in the process of learning JavaBeans and it's application I'm creating my first ever Bean, I use an IDE called JCreator(free) which I have been using so far for the the compilation process of Servlets and I transfer the .class file to the local Apache server.

In my lecture notes it states that I need to store the JavaBeans I create in a package, which according to my understanding should reside inside the JDK version I use, am I right? The notes talk about the following command to line method for this

javac -d. newBean.java

I use a local folder in my E: drive to store all the Java files I create and compile them there, obviously I move the class files in to the classes folder in my WEB-INF in my Apache which is located in local C:

Answer 1

One way to solve the assignment requirements.

Assuming a directory structure as follows:

C:\projects\stackoverflow\3748425>dir /s
 Volume in drive C is WINVISTA
 Volume Serial Number is 3079-C372

 Directory of C:\projects\stackoverflow\3748425

09/19/2010  07:55 PM              .
09/19/2010  07:55 PM              ..
09/19/2010  07:56 PM              beans
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of C:\projects\stackoverflow\3748425\beans

09/19/2010  07:56 PM              .
09/19/2010  07:56 PM              ..
09/19/2010  07:58 PM               540 Bean1.class
09/19/2010  07:57 PM               357 Bean1.java
               2 File(s)            897 bytes

     Total Files Listed:
               2 File(s)            897 bytes
               5 Dir(s)  170,347,962,368 bytes free

And a Java source code file...

package beans;

public class Bean1 implements java.io.Serializable {

  private String a;
  private String b;

  public Bean1(){}

  public void setA(String a){
    this.a = a;
  }

  public void setB(String b){
    this.b = b;
  }

  public String getA(){
    return this.a;
  }

  public String getB(){
    return this.b;
  }

}

You can compile it with this command:

javac -d . beans\Bean1.java