jdwannam@opennms2:/tmp$ cat DateTest.java import java.util.*; public class DateTest { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println( new Date().toString() + "\n" ); } } jdwannam@opennms2:/tmp$ which javac /usr/bin/javac jdwannam@opennms2:/tmp$ /usr/bin/javac /tmp/DateTest.java jdwannam@opennms2:/tmp$ which java /usr/bin/java jdwannam@opennms2:/tmp$ /usr/bin/java /tmp/DateTest.java Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: /tmp/DateTest/java jdwannam@opennms2:/tmp$