Re: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

On 30 Sep 2005 08:53:06 -0700, thickface wrote:
> Thanks. That works!
> I would really appreciate it if you would explain why this happens and
> how I prevent this from happening again.

Java searches a "classpath" to find the classes it needs. It's either
specified on the command line with -cp, or in an environment variable
CLASSPATH.

Apparently the current directory (".") wasn't mentioned.

More information is here:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/solaris/classpath.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/findingclasses.html

/gordon

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