No Main class found in NetBeans

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I have been working on an assignment for my class in programming. I am working with NetBeans. I finished my project and it worked fine. I am getting a message that says "No main class found" when I try to run it. Here is some of the code with the main:

package luisrp3;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.PrintStream;

public class LuisRp3 {

public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException  {

    java.io.File newFile = new java.io.File("LuisRamosp4.txt");

    if (newFile.exists()) {
        newFile.delete();
    }

    System.setOut(new PrintStream(newFile));

    Guitar guitar = new Guitar();

I posted this before but had a couple issues. i have fixed the others and now have just this one remaining. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

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16 Answers

The connections I made in preparing this for posting really cleared it up for me, once and for all. It's not completely obvious what goes in the Main Class: box until you see the connections. (Note that the class containing the main method need not necessarily be named Main but the main method can have no other name.)

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user_27379330

I also experienced Netbeans complaining to me about "No main classes found". The issue was on a project I knew worked in the past, but failed when I tried it on another pc.

My specific failure reasons probably differ from the OP, but I'll still share what I learnt on the debugging journey, in-case these insights help anybody figure out their own unique issues relating to this topic.

What I learnt is that upon starting NetBeans, it should perform a step called "Scanning projects..." Scanning projects...

Prior to this phase, you should notice that any .java file you have with a main() method within it will show up in the 'Projects' pane with its icon looking like this (no arrow):

icon before scanning

After this scanning phase finishes, if a main() method was discovered within the file, that file's icon will change to this (with arrow):

icon after scanning

So on my system, it appeared this "Scanning projects..." step was failing, and instead would be stuck on an "Opening Projects" step.

I also noticed a little red icon in the bottom-right corner which hinted at the issue ailing me:

Unexpected exception

Unexpected Exception
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

Clicking on that link showed me more details of the error:

java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: MD5 MessageDigest not available
    at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:159)
    at java.security.Security.getImpl(Security.java:695)
    at java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance(MessageDigest.java:167)
    at org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory.<clinit>(FSDirectory.java:113)
Caused: java.lang.RuntimeException
    at org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory.<clinit>(FSDirectory.java:115)
Caused: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.lucene.LuceneIndex$DirCache.createFSDirectory(LuceneIndex.java:839)

That mention of "java.security" reminded me that I had fiddled with this machine's "java.security" file (to be specific, I was performing Salvador Valencia's steps from this thread, but did it incorrectly and broke "java.security" in the process :))

Once I repaired the damage I caused to my "java.security" file, NetBeans' "Scanning projects..." step started to work again, the little green arrows appeared on my files once more and I no longer got that "No main classes found" issue.

user_13022200

Had the same problem after opening a project that I had downloaded in NetBeans. What worked for me is to right-click on the project in the Projects pane, then selecting Clean and Build from the drop-down menu. After doing that I ran the project and it worked.

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