What is it with @EventHandlers?

So I'm basically trying to make it were when a person dies, a lighting strikes down. What's the problem?

Code:

    @EventHandler
    public void onPlayerDeath(PlayerDeathEvent event){
        Player player = event.getEntity();
        Location location = player.getLocation();
        World world = player.getWorld();
        world.strikeLightning(location);
    }
 
    

Full code: http://pastebin.com/XjSAGcsn

 

Have you registered the event listener?

 

The problem is that this is just a method, and it is not in a plugin.

 

Sagacious_Zed it is in a plugin this is just a part of it. Me4502 What do you mean?

 

in your main class that extends javaplugin, add

Code:

getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(someClass(), this);

Where someClass is a local variable to represent the listener class, or you can initiate it

 

Show not tell. As it stands no one can tell you what you have done wrong with your plugin.

 

Sagacious_Zed You never asked, how can I know if you want it? Here it is: http://pastebin.com/XjSAGcsn

 

Even though your class implements Listener it must be registered to the PluginManager inorder for the annotations to have any meaning.

add this to your onEnable method.

Code:

this.getServer().getPluginManager().registerEvents(this, this);

 

When in doubt show everything. If you have no idea what is wrong, you have no idea what is relevant.
As, for your problem with listeners, see http://wiki.bukkit.org/Event_API_Reference#Registering_Events