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Java Local Development Environments Exploring Your IDE Clean up this mess

Fayçal Arbai
Fayçal Arbai
4,892 Points

Is there a problem with the tester ?

When I check my code, I have a compiling error coming from a file "JavaTester.java" : JavaTester.java:104: error: cannot access Messy Messy.main(null); ^ bad source file: ./Messy.java file does not contain class Messy Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the sourcepath. 1 error

Since I don't have access to that file, and since my code work on my IDE, I believe I just can't do anything.

Am I right? Or I am making a mistake with my code that I don't see?

Messy.java
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class Messy {
    public static void main() {
        System.out.println("one");
        System.out.println("two");
        System.out.println("three");
        System.out.println("four");
        System.out.println("five");
//        Please comment out this line and
/*        this line as well with a hotkey that does multi - line commenting*/
        List<String> numberWords = Arrays.asList("six", "seven", "eight", "nine");
        for (String numberWord : numberWords) {
            // Use the sout shortcut to write out numberWord;
            System.out.println(numberWord);
        }
    }
}
results.txt
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine

1 Answer

The main method should have "String[] args" inside the parenthesis.