[Biojava-l] NoClassDefFoundError

[Richard Holland]

Good point... *doh* sometimes we all forget things! :)

Hamed, Ahmed A. wrote:
> Dear Richard,
> I know you are answering Charles's question below. However, I thought it
> might be worthwhile mentioning that Java ignores the classpath argument
> if you are running a jar i.e. using "-jar" option.
> Best wishes,
> Ahmed
> 
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Richard Holland
> <holland at eaglegenomics.com <mailto:holland at eaglegenomics.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Depends what you mean by 'installed biojava'.
> 
>     Have you tried running this command:
> 
>     java -jar MPI.jar -cp /path/to/biojava.jar
> 
>     If that works, then the problem will be that your biojava.jar is not
>     installed in the correct location for java to pick it up system-wide.
> 
>     Compiling the demos does not rely on having jars installed as it picks
>     everything up from inside the biojava source distribution.
> 
>     cheers,
>     Richard
> 
>     Charles Imbusch wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > I'm using Netbeans and Biojava on my Laptop. Netbeans creates a
>     jar file
>     > for my project and I can successfully execute it.
>     >
>     > Now I would like to execute the java code on another machine. I
>     > installed Biojava on
>     > that machine as well and copied the jar file to it.
>     >
>     > But I get an error message like this:
>     >
>     > charles at nougat:~$ java -jar MPI.jar
>     > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>     > org/biojava/bio/BioException
>     >
>     > I checked my installation (on nougat ) and tried to compile one of the
>     > example files provided in the
>     > demo folder of the Biojava distribution. The compilation worked out.
>     >
>     > No I'm really wondering what can cause that error.
>     >
>     > Any answer is appreciated.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Charles
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> -- 
> Ahmed Abdeen Hamed
> Scientific Informatics Project Leader
> Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, MA
> --
> Ph.D. student, Complex Systems
> School of Informatics, Indiana University
> 
> 
> 

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Richard Holland, BSc MBCS
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