What is the difference between classpath and path variable?

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anasthesia

  • Nov 14th, 2005
 

CLASSPATH points to all the class files in your program, whereas path contains the location of all the executibles that your program needs forsuccessful run

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mandyjoshi

  • Nov 15th, 2005
 

Classpath: The CLASSPATH is an environment variable that tells the Java compiler javac.exe where to look for class files to import or java.exe where to find class files to interpret.

Path: The PATH is an environment variable that tells the command processor where to look for executable files, e.g. *.exe, *.com and *.bat files.

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