[fedora-java] Eclipse error when doing a "Run As" in a java project

[Timothy Selivanow]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 16:51 -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Timothy,
> 
> It appears you do not have a proper main method.  You should have the 
> following method in your HelloWorld.java file:
> 
>    public static void main(String[] args) {
>        System.out.println("Hello World!");
>    }
> 
> You would have gotten this when you created your New Class if you asked 
> it to create your main method (there is a click box).
> 
> If you right-click on the java file, you will be offered the option to 
> run it as a Java Application.  If you rename it to main2, for example, 
> you will instead see "Open Run Dialog" offered.  If you try and force 
> this to be run via the dialog, you will get the error message you are 
> seeing which is entirely expected.
> 
> -- Jeff J.


I had the method defined, but I had removed "String[] args" thinking
that I didn't need to pass anything to it so I should take it out.  Does
this mean that main() needs at least that argument declaration to work
properly?


--Tim
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