How to solve java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError?

Question

I\'ve tried both the example in Oracle\'s Java Tutorials. They both compile fine, but at run-time, both come up with this error:

Exception in thread \"main\"         


        

Answer 1

I use the FileSync plugin for Eclipse so I can live debug on Tomcat & I received NoClassFoundError because I had added a sync entry for the bin directory in the Eclipse workspace => classes in the metadata for Tomcat but hadn't also added a folder sync for the extlib directory in Eclipse =>

C:\Users\Stuart\eclipse-workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\webapps\myApp\WEB-INF\lib