Can you run BlueJ from a flash drive?

C

Charles

New member
I want to take an online JAVA course and will need BlueJ. I use a computer lab which will not allow installation on a PC. If I could run BlueJ from a flash drive it would seem to be the best method.
 
Yes you can run BlueJ from the flash drive. However you would want your project directory to be on the hard drive or else compiling the project will be slower than normal [still possible but slower]

Oh also BlueJ needs to use Java SDK to run so the computer will need to have the Java SDK installed or you will have to install the SDK to the flash drive too but it is massive.
 
If the flash drive always comes up as Drive E:\ (or whatever). You should be able to install BlueJ to that drive. Java needs a path to the JRE and another path to the /bin inside the Java1.6_uxx folder.

NetBeans maintains a database of the paths to those locations on the hard drive. Maybe BlueJ does too. If not, you will have to learn how to compile and launch java code with the path variable.

example...
E:\ javac -classpath \Java1.6_10\bin MyCode.java
You may have to set something like my example in BlueJ

In other words, know how to navigate to folders on a hard drive using DOS commands
C\:> cd E;\
E\:> \Documents\resume.txt
 
Back
Top