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Jar file with Jaudiotagger, NoClassDefFoundError

I made a java class using the library Jaudiotagger, and it runs without problems. I then made a jar out of it and I got NoClassDefFoundError. Here's how it went:
I put the main class id3tag.java and the library jaudiotagger-2.0.3.jar in a folder and compiled using the command line. The program ran smoothly without problems.
javac -cp .;jaudiotagger-2.0.3.jar id3tag.java
java -cp .;jaudiotagger-2.0.3.jar id3tag
I then created the manifest and the jar file.
echo Main-Class: id3tag >manifest.txt
jar cvfm id3tag.jar manifest.txt id3tag.class jaudiotagger-2.0.3.jar
I got the following output:
added manifest
adding: id3tag.class(in = 5952) (out= 2997)(deflated 49%)
adding: jaudiotagger-2.0.3.jar(in = 811441) (out= 740599)(deflated 8%)
I then ran the jar file, and got "A Java Exception has occurred.". I also tried:
java -jar id3tag.jar
And I got the output:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jaudiotagger/tag/
FieldDataInvalidException
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2451)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:2694)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1622)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.getMainMethod(LauncherHelper.java:494)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:486)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jaudiotagger.tag.FieldDataInval
idException
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
... 6 more
I then replaced all (both) error classes used from Jaudiotagger with Exception and recreated the jar. Now the same thing happens as for seemingly all other jar files when I run them (with Java(TM) Platform SE binary, or through writing id3tag.jar in the command prompt) - nothing. java -jar, however, works and gave me a runtime error.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jaudiotagger/audi
o/AudioFileIO
at id3tag.tagSong(id3tag.java:112)
at id3tag.tagAlbum(id3tag.java:82)
at id3tag.tagArtist(id3tag.java:40)
at id3tag.main(id3tag.java:170)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jaudiotagger.audio.AudioFileIO
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
... 4 more
It seems like the entire library just doesn't do shit for me. How do I fix this, and how do I get jar files to run without java -jar? (Also, how do I get the full pile'o'errors in case someone needs it, rather than just having it say "x more"?)
I'm not very savvy with this kinda shit so the more specific the answer, the better. Thanks.
I'm on windows 8 and latest java (1.7.0_17).

this is informing you that you have no main class, as you might or might not already know all programs in almost all non web based programming languages must have a main class to start from. In java it looks like this
public static int main(String[] args){
}
The message is informing you that this class is no longer there, this could be a compiler error or something entirely different.
please try downloading the library again, and downloading eclipse ide for java ee developers.
this ide has a built in compiler that will work better than a command line sometimes.
i hope this helped.

I worked around it by including the org folder from jaudiotagger in my .jar instead of the actual .jar file, and I then used a .bat file to run it instead of running the .jar directly. Feel free to add your own answer if you find a better solution, and I'll check back.
I extracted jaudiotagger-2.0.3.jar with winrar so that the org folder was in the same folder as my main class. Then I could compile and run the main class simply by:
javac id3tag.java
java id3tag
I then created the manifest file the same way as before, and created the jar:
jar cvfm id3tag.jar manifest.txt id3tag.class org
The jar file worked with java -jar id3tag.jar, but simply writing id3tag.jar still did nothing. Turns out it's because jar files are by default run by the javaw.exe file, so you have to right click the jar file -> open with -> choose default program and navigate to the java.exe file in your java folder (just search the folder). Running the .jar then gets you "Error: Could not find or load main class path\id3tag.jar". I worked around this by using a .bat file. I entered
java -jar path\id3tag.jar
into Notepad and saved as whatevername.bat (save as type: all files).
I created a new question for getting the .jar file to work properly. See .jar error - could not find or load main class.

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: BoothServer

I'm following this tutorial http://stilius.net/java/java_ssl.php to create simple SSLServer and client sockets. I've created the certificate using keytool but I've a problem executing this line from the above tutorial,
"java -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=mySrvKeystore -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=123456 EchoServer".
Where should I put the certificate? in project directory?
how can I pass the parameters mentioned above?
I'm doing this and getting error;
C:\Users\abc\workspace\VirtualElectionBoothServer\bin>java -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=mySrvKeystore -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=123456 BoothServer
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: BoothServer
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: BoothServer
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Could not find the main class: BoothServer. Program will exit.
Edit:
my problem is that I never run a project from command line so I don't know how to run this line from command line;
C:\Users\abc\workspace\VirtualElectionBoothServer\bin>java -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=mySrvKeystore -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=123456 BoothServer
From which directory should i run it? I've more than one .java files. which one to run? one having main()?

It looks like you don't know how to run a Java application from the command line.
I'll just assume that your BoothServer class isn't in a package. If it is, use its full name (e.g. the.package.name.BoothServer).
I'll also assume that you've compiled this within eclipse and that the resulting class file is in the bin directory. (If you are using packages, you should have your file under bin\the\package\name\BoothServer.class. Replace the directory names with the actual package names if this is the case, of course.)
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: No available certificate or key
corresponds to the SSL cipher suites which are enabled
This is the typical error that happens when the keystore can't be found (amongst other reasons).
Make sure the path you're using with -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore= points to the actual keystore you've generated. For example, -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=..\mySrvKeyStore if your file is under C:\Users\abc\workspace\VirtualElectionBoothServer.
I also suspect that Eclipse might clear the content of bin every time it recompiles (not sure), so bin would not necessarily be a good place to keep that keystore file.

Javac compilation and execution of 2 java files

The program is written with 2 files filter.java - in which is the main function and ClasifiedWord.java which is only container class. I wrote that on windows on eclipse but want to compile it on Linux javac compiler.
javac filter.java ClasifiedWord.java
runs without mistakes, but when I try to run the program:
snowy:Filter$ java filter
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: filter
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: filter
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Could not find the main class: filter. Program will exit.
snowy:Filter$ javac filter.java ClasifiedWord.java
snowy:Filter$ java filter ClasifiedWord
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: filter
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: filter
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Could not find the main class: filter. Program will exit.
How can I run the program ? It seems that the compilation is ok. I have doubts that maybe I have made a mistake about the file paths in the program.... but I think that this is not the case?
Thanks for your answers!

Type the following command.
java -classpath . filter
If you want to type just java filter, please following these guides.
Linux http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-set-java_home-path-variable/
Windows http://ac-support.europe.umuc.edu/~arnoldyl/NetBeansTutorials/Setting-Classpath.html
P.S. The last command java filter ClasifiedWord means to run a program filter and use a string ClasifiedWord as an argument.

Roland is right in the comment, you should be able to run it with java -classpath <folderContainingDotClassFiles> filter. Also, you should change filter.java to Filter.java as the standard Java convention for class names (including the files containing them) is to capitalize the first letter.

This looks like you either have a wrong CLASSPATH setting (usually you don't need this at all, but if you have it, it should include . in the list, for the current directory), or you are using packages (wrongly), or both. For the classpath issue, see the other answers.
If you are using packages, i.e. your files contain a package ...; line at the beginning, you should put your source files in a directory structure according to the package structure. For example, if you have package example;, you should have an example directory in your current directory, and in this the two source files.
Then call compiler and interpreter like this:
javac example/filter.java example/ClasifiedWord.java
java example.filter
(This assumes that filter is the main class, otherwise replace its name.)

NoClassDefFoundError without any class name

I am trying to run a java task from ant. I am trying to run the "org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher" class. I keep on getting the "NoClassDefFoundError" without any class name being specified. I am also getting a "ClassNotFoundException" along with that displaying a message "Could not find the main class: . Program will exit". Here's a snippet of the error
[java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
[java] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
[java] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
[java] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
[java] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
[java] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
[java] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
[java] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
[java] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
[java] Could not find the main class: . Program will exit.
[java] Java Result: 1
Now I am trying to run an ant class from an ant jar and i specifiy the classpath where this class file resides using the "classpathref" attribute, however I still get this message. I checked the ant jar to check the Manifest and the "main" class is specified properly (it's "org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher") . I have exhausted all my resources. Please help ! ! !
ps: My environment is Eclipse on Ubuntu 9.04

Most likely your classpath is misconfigured.
At a minimum the CLASSPATH should include:
ant.jar and ant-launcher.jar
jars/classes for your XML parser
the JDK's required jar/zip files
(from the ant manual)
Also you seem to be relaunching ant in the current directory (executing the same build.xml). Maybe you'll want to set the "dir" property.

It looks like the Ant task is trying to run Java, but is somehow passing an empty string to the JVM as the name of the class to run. I can get the same stacktrace if I run the JVM directly with a quoted empty string:
C:\>java ""
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Could not find the main class: . Program will exit.
(This is on Windows, but I don't think that makes much of a difference.)
I can only suggest following up on Alexander Pogrebnyak's comment to akf's answer. Perhaps the webtest.lib property has spaces in it?
Also, is there a good reason for calling ant directly via java, rather than using the ant task?

https://blogs.oracle.com/sreekanth/entry/java_lang_noclassdeffounderror_org_codehaus
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/plexus/classworlds/launcher/Launcher
By sreekanth on Nov 23, 2010
Recently when I am trying to run some Maven scripts, I am getting this exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/plexus/classworlds/launcher/Launcher
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Could not find the main class: org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher. Program will exit.
After spending some time trying various combinations , I found that this is because I have both M2_HOME and M3_HOME set in my environment variables.Once I removed M2_HOME from my environment variables, I could get this working back again.May be this could save some serious time for some one.

This can be a misleading error that is not actually about a class missing from the classpath. If you are using Tomcat it can be due to missing conf files in $CATALINA_BASE/conf
It could also be a misconfigured ant installation, please check your JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME env variables or try another ant installation.

Ant launcher expects the following params
java -Dant.home=c:\ant org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher [options] [target]
I am affraid we can't proceed answering you if you don't paste your whole build.xml file.
Just try to give your full sample as below:
<java
classname="org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher"
fork="true"
failonerror="true"
dir="${sub.builddir}"
timeout="4000000"
taskname="startAnt"
>
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${ant.home}/lib/ant-launcher.jar"/>
</classpath>
<arg value="-buildfile"/>
<arg file="${sub.buildfile}"/>
<arg value="-Dthis=this"/>
<arg value="-Dthat=that"/>
<arg value="-Dbasedir=${sub.builddir}"/>
<arg value="-Dthe.other=the.other"/>
<arg value="${sub.target}"/>
</java>
This would be extremely helpful to provide you with a possible misunderstanding.
Hope this helps,
Ernani

From this line:
[java] Could not find the main class: . Program will exit.
it looks as though your call to java.exe is finding a . where it expects a class name. Perhaps you are trying to indicate the classpath on the commandline but are neglecting to preface that with the -cp or -classpath flag.

When in doubt, invoke ant -v and watch all your variable declarations, and the whole commandline sent to Java.
Certain path-like quantities are eagerly evaluated, while others are lazily evaluated. I've had plenty of problems where I used one of the former, when my Ant script intended to create a jar that would be used by a later task. Then by the time I invoked the call, it had already pruned my jar from the classpath.
If I had to make a wild guess, I'd bet your commandline looked something like:
java ... -classpath org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher
instead of
java ... -classpath foo.jar;bar.jar org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher
like you expected

I had a similar problem recently. The culprits were 2 tags under the java task, that didn't have their values set, so they resulted in 2 empty command arguments and in the end in 2 spaces in the command line.
For some reason Unix doesn't handle it right. Both Red Hat 5 and Ubuntu displayed the same error. It was OK on Windows 7.
Setting those arguments to have default dummy values solved the issue.

How to invoke groovy with 'java' from command line

I have to ship some groovy code to some users that have only java installed (no grooy, no $groovy_home, etc). I'm trying to invoke groovy from the commandline but I'm having no luck. Here's my bat file:
java -classpath .;lib;bin;bin-groovy introspector.AclCollector
And here's my exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: groovy/lang/GroovyObject
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:621)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:56)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: groovy.lang.GroovyObject
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
... 12 more
Could not find the main class: introspector.AclCollector. Program will exit.
Does anyone have a clue? I have 'groovy-all-1.6-beta-1.jar' in \lib dir.

You have here another example of Groovy app called from Java (in this case, from ant, but the general idea is the same).
java -cp [...];%GROOVY_HOME%/embeddable/groovy-all-1.5.4.jar;[..]
As mentioned by frankowyer, you have the exact groovy jar explicitly listed on the classpath arguments of the java.
Since your clients do not have special environment variable, just replace the %GROOVY_HOME%/... with the complete path to:
groovy.jar or
goovy-all-VERSION.jar (to minimize any conflict with other libraries)

I think you need to explicitly list the groovy jar in the classpath

One way to avoid problems with different class paths on different machines would be to bundle all the necessary dependencies into one single jar, this would also make distribution to users easier. This can be done with this 'GroovyWrapper' script. The default jars (embeddable/groovy-all-.jar and lib/commons.jar) are included by default in the script and if you require other JARS they can easily be added.
See http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/WrappingGroovyScript for the full script and instructions.
Here's an example of how to use GroovyWrapper:
Say you have groovy script HelloWorld.groovy, use GroovyWrapper for building HelloWorld.jar, as follows:
$ groovy GroovyWrapper -c -m HelloWorld
GroovyWrapper will compile the script HelloWorld.groovy to HelloWorld.class, and creates a self-executable jar HelloWorld.jar.
Now you can use the HelloWorld.jar for launching the HelloWorld script, simply by running:
$ java -jar HelloWorld.jar

GREAT ANSWER by VonC:
....... Since your clients do not have special environment variable,
just replace the %GROOVY_HOME%/... with the complete path to:
groovy.jar or
goovy-all-VERSION.jar (to minimize any conflict with other libraries)........
this is for windows Vista:
In System Properties | Environmental Variables | User variables:
Variable Name GROOVY_HOME set to C:\groovy\Groovy-1.8.5
and the Variable Name CLASSPATH value's set to include .;%GROOVY_HOME%\embeddable\groovy-all-1.8.5.jar
Don't make the mistake I did(spinning my wheels a bit), of not prep-ending the path of the 'groovy-all' with ".;" (dot and semi-colon): as the path needs the base folder you're in for finding the main class(strange as it seems)

Watch out of [~]!
java -cp .:~/path-to-groovy-all.jar YourClassName # does not work
java -cp ~/path-to-groovy-all.jar:. YourClassName # works
java -cp .:/full/path/to/goovy-all.jar YourClassName # works
In first line tilde is not processed by bash, and java can not understand it.
In second line tilde is replaced by bash and everything works fine.