Running a Java Program

Question

I looked at some other SO questions, didn\'t find anything that solved my problem... I have a Main.java file (below) and a OthelloLib.jar file without associated source files.

Answer 1

You run

javac -classpath .:OthelloLib.jar Main.java

to compile, then

java -classpath .:OthelloLib.jar Main

In each case the -classpath .:OthelloLib.jar option tells Java where to find SimplePlayer and other classes you need; it doesn't know to look in the JAR file on its own. And you do need to tell both the compiler and the virtual machine where to look for the classes.

EDIT: Looks like you added something about TimeoutException since I wrote this... did you remember to compile TimeoutException.java? And is the TimeoutException.class file in the same directory as Main.class?