error while calling dependent file

i created 2 files... namely Shirt.java and ShirtTest.java

The code for the Shirt.java class is as follows--

public class Shirt{
public int ShirtID=0;
public String description="-description required-";
public char colorCode='U';
public double price=0.0;
public int quantityInStock=0;


public void displayShirtInformation(){
    System.out.println("ShirtId:"+ShirtID);
    System.out.println("ShirtDescription"+description);
    System.out.println("Color Code:"+colorCode);
    System.out.println("Shirt Price"+price);
    System.out.println("Quantity In Stock"+quantityInStock);


}

}

The code for the ShirtTest.java is as follows--

public class ShirtTest {

  public static void main (String args[]) {

  Shirt myShirt = new Shirt();

  myShirt.displayShirtInformation();

  } 
}

While i compiled the Shirt.java file.. it compiled with no errors and created a Shirt.class file.. but when i tried to compile the ShirtTest file.. it gave an error.. Which is as follows..

> C:\java>javac ShirtTest.java
ShirtTest.java:6: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class Shirt
location: class ShirtTest
  Shirt myShirt = new Shirt();
  ^
ShirtTest.java:6: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class Shirt
location: class ShirtTest
  S开发者_开发百科hirt myShirt = new Shirt();
                      ^
2 errors

What is the problem here?

p.s-both Shirt.java as well as ShirtTest.java are in the same folder

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First: javac Shirt.java Then: javac ShirtTest.java After that you can run ShirtTest like that: java ShirtTest

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Try putting your classes in packages. Using the default package is bad practice.

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Make sure that the current directory is in the classpath when compiling the test. e.g.

javac -cp . ShirtTest.java

You can check the current classpath with

c:\java> set CLASSPATH

When you compile Shirt.java it doesn't have any dependencies outside of the core Java libraries so the classpath doesn't matter for that. That's why you only see a problem when you come to ShirtTest.java

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Did you compile Shirt class?

Try :javac Shirt.java ShirtTest.java