What is a classpath and how do I set it?

Question

Can anyone help me what is the meaning of the word classpath in Java? And how I can able to set the classpath?

Answer 1

Basically, Classpath helps you to load a .class file using Application ClassLoader. Also, it will help you to find third-party classes which do not contain extensions of Java.

To set the Classpath you can use the following command prompt command:

set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8\rt.jar;  

I hope this will help.

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