RE: Finding NoClassDefFoundError Error

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Found the problem...it had to do with a package statement. The error
message was misleading, but it eventually came to me.

- Michael

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Finding NoClassDefFoundError Error
> From: michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, March 16, 2005 12:33 pm
> To: java101 java101 <java101@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,     java400-l java400-l
> <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'm trying to use iText to create a PDF document. I'm getting a
> NoClassDefFoundError error - how can I find the name of the class I'm
> not defining in my exception trace? btw, it compiles with no errors
> using the same classpath. Trace shown below...
> 
> TIA...
> 
> > java  -classpath /OpenSource/itext/itext-1.2.jar:/michael HelloWorld        
>  java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError                                        
>          at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:180)            
>          at java.lang.Error.<init>(Error.java:37)                      
>          at
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.<init>(NoClassDefFoundError.java:30 )   
>                                                                 
>          at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:547)    
>          at
> java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
>                                                                  
>          at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:312)
>      
>          at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$300(URLClassLoader.java:85)
>          at
> java.net.URLClassLoader$ClassFinder.run(URLClassLoader.java:636)  
>          at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:221)
>          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299)      
>          at
> sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)    
>          at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:245)      
>          at
> java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:312)