ECJ doesn't do anything special to load classes -- it just uses normal
Java class loading like you've always seen.  If the parent directory of
the 'ec' directory is in your CLASSPATH, then it'll look in
ec/app/automation/func/X.class to find the class
ec.app.automation.func.X

Is it possible the class file isn't there?

Sean

On Nov 9, 2004, at 4:54 AM, Anjali Samani wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have set up a gp problem in a very similar way to the examples in the
> package.  The individual pieces of code compile without errors.  When
> I try
> to run the code I get the following error:
>
> =============================================
> Threads:  breed/1 eval/1
> Seed: 4357
> Setting up
> Processing GP Types
> Processing GP Node Constraints
> Processing GP Function Sets
> Exception in thread "main" ec.util.ParamClassLoadException:
> Class not found: ec.app.automation.func.X
> PARAMETER: gp.fs.0.func.0
> EXCEPTION:
>
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ec.app.automation.func.X
>         at ec.util.ParameterDatabase.getInstanceForParameter
> (ParameterDatabase.j
> ava:172)
>         at ec.gp.GPFunctionSet.setup(GPFunctionSet.java:284)
>         at
> ec.gp.GPFunctionSet.setupFunctionSets(GPFunctionSet.java:142)
>         at ec.gp.GPInitializer.setup(GPInitializer.java:61)
>         at ec.EvolutionState.setup(EvolutionState.java:324)
>         at
> ec.simple.SimpleEvolutionState.run(SimpleEvolutionState.java:63)
>         at ec.Evolve.main(Evolve.java:424)
>
> ==============================================
>
> The folder ('automation') containing the problem and the functions is
> stored in ec\app\.  X is a terminal function located in
> ec\app\automation\func.  I believe that the parameter class X is not
> being
> found, but am not sure why.
>
> Any help on the matter would be great.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> anjali