User`s manual

5 Calling Java from MATLAB

5-6

1.1.8 Java Virtual Machine from the web site at Sun Microsystems, (http://

www.java.sun.com/jdk/

). The Sun site also provides documentation for the

Java language and classes that you will need for development.

After you create class definitions in

.java files, use your Java compiler to

produce

.class files from them. The next step is to make the class definitions

in those

.class files available for you to use in MATLAB.

Making Java Classes Available to MATLAB

To make your third-party and user-defined Java classes available in MATLAB,

place them on your MATLAB path by adding their locations to the file

classpath.txt. For more information on classpath.txt, see “Finding and

Editing classpath.txt” on page 5-7.

Making Individual (Unpackaged) Classes Available

To make individual classes (classes not part of a package) available in

MATLAB, add to

classpath.txt an entry containing the full path to the

directory you want to use for the

.class file(s).

For example, to make available your compiled Java classes in the file

d:\work\javaclasses\test.class, add the following entry to your

classpath.txt file.

d:\work\javaclasses

Making Entire Packages Available

To access one or more classes belonging to a package, you need to make the

entire package available to MATLAB. Do this by adding to

classpath.txt the

full path to the parent directory of the highest-level directory of the package

path. This directory is the first component in the package name.

For example, if your Java class package

com.mw.tbx.ini has its classes in