NoClassDefFoundError: testjava.class

I have a java program testjava.java, which successfully compiles into testjava.class.

Both of these are in my current directory, /home/pdow.

When I try to run the program with

qsh cmd('javap -s -public -classpath $CLASSPATH testjava.class')

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: testjava.class
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: testjava.class
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:497)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:639)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:605)

This program uses POI version 3.7, and the classpath is:

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:/java/dom4j/dom4j-1.6.1.jar
:/java/poi3.7/poi-3.7-20101029.jar
:/java/poi3.7/poi-scratchpad-3.7-20101029.jar
:/java/poi3.7/poi-ooxml-3.7-20101029.jar
:/java/poi3.7/poi-ooxml-schemas-3.7-20101029.jar
:/java/xmlbeans/jsr173_1.0_api.jar
:/java/xmlbeans/xbean.jar

Googling tells me that "NoClassDefFoundError" means the class was found during compile time, but is not present at runtime. The environment did not change between

qsh cmd('javac -classpath $CLASSPATH testjava.java')
Command ended normally with exit status 0.

and

qsh cmd('java -classpath $CLASSPATH testjava.class')
Command ended normally with exit status 1.

I also tried

qsh cmd('javap -s -public -classpath $CLASSPATH testjava.class')
Command ended normally with exit status 1.

which simply got

ERROR:Could not find testjava.class

So what's going on? Why can the compiler find it, but not the java runtime?


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