Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:

When we specify a package name in our Java code, e.g. the following code

package com.example.hello;

import java.io.Console;

public class HelloWorld {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Console console = System.console();
		System.out.print("Input something? ");
		String string;
		if ((string = console.readLine()) != null) {
			System.out.println(string);
		}
	}
}

We use "com.example.hello" as the package name, then change to the source directory, compile and execute the class.

$ cd com/example/hello

$ javac HelloWorld.java

$ java HelloWorld

Java can't execute the class by showing the error message

"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloWorld (wrong name: com/example/hello/HelloWorld)"

There are two solutions

1.remove the package qualifier from source code

2.change to the root directory of source, usually projectname/src, use the full class name of HelloWorld, in this example it's com.example.hello.HelloWorld

$ cd ../../../

$ java com.example.hello.HelloWorld