NoClassDefFoundError in Java

Question

Can someone explain, why we get the NoClassDefFoundError while executing a Java application? Is there any way available to handle this?

Answer 1

Can’t tell you the exact reason as there can be many a situation when it can occur. But, most possibly it occurs because of the mismatch between the classpaths during compile and run-time.

To deal with this, following two exceptions can come in handy:

1. java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

2. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError