I appologize if this is the wrong place, but I was wondering if anybody can recommend a book on java2d (maybe as it applies to game programing...)?

Thanks,
Andrew

Actually, I feel like asking the question:

Why do they make you do it for the .java file and not the .class file, it makes no sense

wow...uhhh I feel stupid.

I'm trying to get the java SDK working on Mandrake 10. I get the following errors:

[andrew@localhost java]$ java HelloWorld.class
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloWorld/class

echo $CLASSPATH returns nothing.

I looked around and it seems there were several ways to set your classpath but each way was a little diffrent and involved editing /etc/profile or $HOME/.bashrc (even /.bash_profile in some cases)

What exactly needs to be done?