New to Java

I am new to Java Programming. I am still trying to run my first programme "Hello World".

I wrote it and compiled. At first attempt I failed to do it and next time it was succesfull

after including the java directory path to the "javac" command.

But I can not run it succesfully. Please help me to get it done.

This is the code I wrote.
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/**
* The HelloWorldApp class implements an application that
* simply displays "Hello World!" to the standard output.
*/
class HelloWorldApp {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello World!"); //Display the string.
}
}
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The following outputs I got on screen while trying several attempts with various commanding

paths.

Help me to troubleshoot please.

C:\>C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\bin\java HelloWorldApp
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloWorldApp
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloWorldApp
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
Could not find the main class: HelloWorldApp. Program will exit.

C:\>C:\Java\jre6\bin\java HelloWorldApp
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloWorldApp
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloWorldApp
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: HelloWorldApp. Program will exit.

C:\>C:\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\jre\bin\java HelloWorldApp
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloWorldApp
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloWorldApp
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
Could not find the main class: HelloWorldApp. Program will exit.

C:\>java HelloWorldApp
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloWorldApp
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloWorldApp
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: HelloWorldApp. Program will exit.