How do I run java program with multiple classes from cmd?

Question

At the moment I am looking for another way to run my Java program from command line, other than adding it to a JAR file. My program has the following number of classes:

The name of the program file - MyProgram
Main class - Server1
second class - Client Handler
Package name - Items
3rd class - User1
4th class - User2

The main class and client handler alongside the package will have to run first in order for user 1 & user 2 to run, because they are client classes and are dependent on the main class.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65546153/how-do-i-compile-and-run-a-program-with-multiple-files-classes-mac

Answer 1

javac *.java // compliles all java files in the dir

java MyClass // runs the particular file

If one class is dependent on another class that hasn't been compiled yet, the program won't run. So you should compile all files before trying to run the program dependent on other files.

If your files are packaged, then something like this

javac com.mypackage/.*java

java com.mypackage.MyClass