Hello everyone this is going to sound REAL stupid. I just downloaded SDK for windows and installed 1.2 and it sure put a lot of stuff on my hd but there doesn't seem to be any simple minded litle meta app that hooks them all together, lets me input java source files and run them. I do have PWS installed if that means anything.
I KNOW how to program but I don't know what I have to do to punch in the "hello world" program and get it to work. Specifically, I don't know where or how to input the program. I found a thing called "java" in fact I think I have several copies of it here and there. It puts up a little DOS-like screen then disappears before I can read the error messages it has. So I gather it's either not a Windows app or it's meant as a component of something bigger.
1. Is there anything else I have to have if so what and where?
2. What EXACTLY do I have to do to hook everything together. I could try things all night and I would never discover the magic file, so I thought it best to ask. At the top level it put this Console thing in my program menu with a few things you can set and a few spaces for pathnames but I have no idea what any of it is talking about. Do I have to go into MS-DOS to use this or is there some windows thing I can use. If so what is it, where would it be or where would I get it?
3. Please tell me STEP by STEP what I have to do and assume nothing excep that I have the SDK installed.
4. I posted to this thread because my question seems similar to the original posting but even more basic, and the answers here don't answer me.
Thank you. I am not stupid, just ignorant at this point and hoping to remedy the situation ASAP.
