How to use 3rd party packages in Java

Question

I\'m developping my first Java application which actually needs a 3rd party package and now I\'m lost as to how to actually use it. The packages I need are from VLCJ so that

Answer 1

You need to add the jar file to the search path of javac when you compile your project; and you need to make the jar available at runtime-- it needs to be in the classpath of the java process that runs your program.

If you are using an IDE, you usually update these paths in the project settings.