Home Segments Top Top Previous Next

840: Mainline

In ordinary standalone applications, a resource locator can access information in any directory specified by the CLASSPATH operating-system environment variable, or, if a relative path is supplied, in subdirectories of those directories specified by CLASSPATH.

Suppose, for example, that you run a standalone application on a computer that has the directory structure shown in Segment 838. Further suppose that the value of the CLASSPATH variable is as follows:

\kap;phw\onto\java;.  

Then, your application can access files in the current directory (specified by the . in the value of the CLASSPATH variable), in the \kap directory, and in the \phw\onto\java directory—and, if relative paths are provided, in the subdirectories of those directories.