java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError when i run java file from terminal

I am a java newbie. I have been using Eclipse to test a simple java class (named NewHelloWorld) and it runs fine in the console. When I try to do the same thing from a terminal, it compiles properly (c开发者_如何学运维reates a HelloWorld.class without giving any error) , but then java NewHelloWorld shows the following error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: NewHelloWorld (wrong name: org/kodeplay/kodejava/NewHelloWorld)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:634)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
    Could not find the main class: NewHelloWorld. Program will exit.

I also tried java -classpath . NewHelloWorld but that doesnt work as well giving the same error.

These are the values of the environment variables:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"
JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk"
CLASSPATH="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/lib:."

Is anything else required or am I missing anything here? Thanks

PS: using Ubuntu 10.04 desktop

wrong name: org/kodeplay/kodejava/NewHelloWorld

cd up to the package root, so that you're in the folder containing org folder and then do

java -cp . org.kodeplay.kodejava.NewHelloWorld

The error message gives you a clue:

(wrong name: org/kodeplay/kodejava/NewHelloWorld)

It looks like your class is called org.kodeplay.kodejava.NewHelloWorld. The Java command line needs to know the fully qualified class name:

java -cp . org.kodeplay.kodejava.NewHelloWorld

should do the trick.

Go to the package root directory (the parent directory of org) and run:

java -cp .:$CLASSPATH org.kodeplay.kodejava.NewHelloWorld

Also I wouldn't put . to my CLASSPATH permanently (in .bashrc, .bash_profile or /etc/profile) it may lead to undesired behavior.

cd up to the root package. Most of the cases it will be src folder in the Project if created from eclipse IDE.

java -cp . org.kodeplay.kodejava.NewHelloWorld should work

java org.kodeplay.kodejava.NewHelloWorld should also work. I tried both the things and it works fine in both the case

I had a similar problem running a HelloWorld program I had written with a text editor on Mac OS X. It ran fine on a remote Linux box, but running it from home directory I got the dreaded NoClassDefFoundError.

Found that I could fix it either by running as:

java -cp . HelloWorld

or, without the classpath qualifier, after adding the current directory to my bash CLASSPATH for the current session:

export CLASSPATH=.

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