After realising I had to do a 'setDefaultJava' to get any java workig in the first place I ran in to troubles getting some work program to compile. The problem is missing classes I have installed the SDK, and cant find any classes (IBM SDK or Sun SDK I tried them both) I can't blieve that the classes are not on my system somewhere. So Im guessing there is some environment variable not set, I have declare -x JAVA_BINDIR="/usr/lib/java/bin" declare -x JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/java" declare -x JDK_HOME="/usr/lib/java" declare -x JRE_HOME="/usr/lib/java" and I have downloaded the sun sdk in source and can see there are classes there, but not elsewhere. I'm hoping one of you reading this will be able to tell me something like "copy the classes to JDK_HOME/classes and your done." tia regards richard -- Richard Fletcher, Sheffield, UK. (Visit http://arcos.kusala.com for the latest news about Arcos, the leading tool for PHP developers)