Installing for Visual J++

Here's how to install NetRexx for use with Visual J++:

1. Copy the following file into the [java_root]\Lib directory:

     NetRexxC.jar
   
   

   For example, if [java_root] is at E:\Java:

     C:\>copy NetRexxC.jar E:\Java\Lib
   
   

2. Similarly, copy the nrc.bat and NetRexxC.bat files to the [java_root]\Bin directory.
3. Add the jar file explicitly to the CLASSPATH:

     C:\>set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;[java_root]\Lib\NetRexxC.jar;
   
   

   For example, if [java_root] is E:\Java, your CLASSPATH might then look like this:

     CLASSPATH=E:\Java\Lib;E:\Java\TrustLib;E:\Java\Lib\NetRexxC.jar;
   
   

   Under Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 this can be done using Start, Settings, Control Panel, System, Environment tab, System Variables, and clicking on CLASSPATH.

Using NetRexx with Visual J++

1. Use the J++ jview command to invoke the NetRexx translator to convert a NetRexx program (e.g., hello.nrx) into a Java program (hello.java).
   Note that some versions of the jview package do not provide a classes.zip file by default, but the NetRexx compiler needs this to determine information about classes that you use. If this is the case, you will get a class not found error for java.lang.Object. In this case, run the command

     clspack -auto
   
   

   from an MS-DOS prompt to create the classes.zip file.
   When running the NetRexx compiler, you must specify the -nocompile option to NetRexx in order to prevent it from trying to invoke the Java toolkit compiler javac (which isn't in the MicroSoft J++ classes).
   For example, if hello.nrx is in the current directory:

     jview COM.ibm.netrexx.process.NetRexxC hello -nocompile
   
   

   The result of this step should be a Java source file called hello.java.
2. Use the J++ ‘jvc’ command to compile the Java source file:

     jvc hello.java
   
   

   The result of this step should be a Java class file called hello.class.
3. Execute the class file with the J++ command jview:

     jview hello
   
   

4. Note that some earlier versions of jview fail with an exception (an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in RexxUtil.translate) when compiling hello.nrx. This is due to a bug in the jview JIT;^[1]  the workaround is to turn the JIT off.

Note that all the commands above probably have to be typed exactly as shown (Java is very case-sensitive). The supplied NetRexxC.bat can be modified to work with the above commands by using jview instead of the java command and adding the jvc step.