RE: NoClassDefFoundError: testjava.class

["Gary L Peskin" <garyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try to take the ".class" off of your java command so it's 

  qsh cmd('java -classpath $CLASSPATH testjava')

HTH,
Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Dow
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 8:02 PM
> To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
> Subject: 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:
>
> .
> :/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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