Veryant's documentation is a good place to start.
There is a section on isCOBOL and Java in the isCOBOL Evolve documentation, under "Introduction", "The Basics".
One of the chapters is about class loading. The 2022 version of that documentation is at:
Class loading (veryant.com)
There is a good article on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classpath
Setting the Classpath
Solaris and Linux
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/classpath.html
Windows
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/windows/classpath.html
How classes are found
Solaris, Linux and Windows
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/findingclasses.html
JDK Tools and Utilities
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/
Article ID: 22
Created: August 28, 2009
Last Updated: July 4, 2022
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