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I am having trouble compiling and running my Java code, intended to allow me to interface Java with a shared object for Vensim, a simulation modeling package.

The following code compiles without error:

javac -d . -cp ./apache-log4j-1.2.16/log4j-1.2.16.jar:./vensim.jar SpatialModel.java     VensimHelper.java VensimException.java VensimContextRepository.java

However, when I try to run the following:

java -cp ./apache-log4j-1.2.16/log4j-1.2.16.jar:./vensim.jar SpatialModel vars

I get the following error: "Error: Could not find or load main class SpatialModel ". My SpatialModel.java code does contain a 'main' method (below), so I'm not sure what the problem is - can anyone please help me out? Thanks.

import java.io.File;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public class SpatialModel {

    private VensimHelper vh;

    public static final String DLL_LIBNAME_PARAM = "vensim_lib_nam";

    public static final String MODEL_PATH_PARAM = "vensim_model_path";

    private final static int VENSIM_CONTEXT_CREATION_MAX_FAILURE_COUNT = 10;

    public SpatialModel() throws SpatialException {

        String libName = System.getProperty(DLL_LIBNAME_PARAM);
        String modelPath = System.getProperty(MODEL_PATH_PARAM);        

        if(libName == null || libName.trim().equals("")) {
            log.error("Vensim library name has to be set with -D" + DLL_LIBNAME_PARAM);
            throw new SpatialException("Vensim library name has to be set with -D" + DLL_LIBNAME_PARAM);
        }

        if(modelPath == null || modelPath.trim().equals("")) {
            log.error("Model path has to set with -D" + MODEL_PATH_PARAM);
            throw new SpatialException("Model path ahs to be set with -D" + MODEL_PATH_PARAM);
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < VENSIM_CONTEXT_CREATION_MAX_FAILURE_COUNT && vh == null; i++) {
            try {
                log.info("creating new vensim helper\n\tdll lib: " + libName + "\n\tmodel path: " + modelPath);
                vh = new VensimHelper(libName, modelPath);
            } catch (Throwable e) {
                log.error("An exception was thrown when initializing Vensim, try: " + i, e);
            }
        }
        if (vh == null) {
            throw new SpatialException("Can't initialize Vensim");
        }

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws VensimException {

        long before = System.currentTimeMillis();   
        String libName = System.getProperty(DLL_LIBNAME_PARAM);
        String modelPath = System.getProperty(MODEL_PATH_PARAM);

        if (libName == null) {
            libName = "libvensim";
        }
        if(modelPath == null) {
            modelPath = "~/BassModel.vmf";
        }

        System.setProperty(DLL_LIBNAME_PARAM, libName);
        System.setProperty(MODEL_PATH_PARAM, modelPath);

        if (args.length > 0 && args[0].equals("info")) {
            System.out.println(new VensimHelper(libName, modelPath).getVensimInfo());
        } else if (args.length > 0 && args[0].equals("vars")) {
            VensimHelper helper = new VensimHelper(libName, modelPath);
            String[] vars = helper.getVariables();
            for (String var : vars) {
                System.out.println(helper.getVariableInfo(var));
            }
        } else {

            File f = new File(".");
            System.out.println(f.getAbsolutePath());

            SpatialModel sm = new SpatialModel();
        }

        System.out.println("Execution time: " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - before));
    }

}

Answer 1

Project > Clean and then make sure BuildPath > Libraries has the correct Library.

Answer 2

This problem occurred for me when I imported an existing project into eclipse. What happens is it copied all the files not in the package, but outside the package. Hence, when I tried run > run configurations, it couldn't find the main method because it was not in the package. All I did was copy the files into the package and Eclipse was then able to detect the main method. So ultimately make sure that Eclipse can find your main method, by making sure that your java files are in the right package.

Answer 3

I believe you need to add the current directory to the Java classpath

java -cp .:./apache-log4j-1.2.16/log4j-1.2.16.jar:./vensim.jar SpatialModel vars

Answer 4

I got this error because I was trying to run

javac HelloWorld.java && java HelloWorld.class

when I should have removed .class:

javac HelloWorld.java && java HelloWorld

Answer 5

This solved the issue for me today:

cd /path/to/project
cd build
rm -r classes

Then clean&build it and run the individual files you need.

Answer 6

if You working in Eclipse, just make cleanup (project\clean.. clean all projects) of project.