Question

I wrote a java program to test RESTful web services by using Netbeans7.0.1 and it works fine there. Now I wrote the build.xml file to compile the code and when I try to run the generated .class file I always got this exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ClientREST (wrong name: clientrest/ClientREST)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:632)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:616)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Could not find the main class: ClientREST. Program will exit.

The name and path are correct, so any thoughts why I’m getting this exception?

Answer 1

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ClientREST

So, you ran it as java ClientREST. It’s expecting a ClientREST.class without any package.

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(wrong name: clientrest/ClientREST)

Hey, the class is trying to tell you that it has a package clientrest;. You need to run it from the package root on. Go one folder up so that you’re in the folder which in turn contains the clientrest folder representing the package and then execute java clientrest.ClientREST.

You should not go inside the clientrest package folder and execute java ClientREST.