I've searched through a great deal of posts regarding including jar files with a java file using linux (Ubuntu) and javac, while I've had some luck in finding how to do it, I haven't had any luck getting it to work (best response was here: How to include jar files with java file and compile in command prompt).
I'm simply trying to get json-simple-1.1.1.jar to import so that I can use JsonObject and JsonParser.
My directory structure is like so:
/java/lib/json-simple-1.1.1.jar
/java/name/example/JsonExample.java
The command I've seen results from is:
javac -cp ".:../../lib/json-simple-1.1.1.jar" JsonExample.java
error: error reading ../../lib/json-simple-1.1.1.jar; error in opening zip file
and when it seems to miss the jar file I get:
JsonExample.java:5: error: package org.json.simple does not exist
import org.json.simple.JsonObject;
JsonExample.java:6: error: package org.json.simple does not exist
import org.json.simple.JsonParser;
I'm using:
import org.json.simple.JsonObject;
import org.json.simple.JsonParser;
to import the classes I require from json-simple-1.1.1.jar
I have download json-simple from http://json-simple.googlecode.com/files/json-simple-1.1.1.jar and ensured that the file is complete and also removed and redownloaded it multiple times.
I would really appreciate any assistance anyone can offer as I have no idea where I'm going wrong here. Thanks, in advance!
