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

A friend of mine wanted to start to learn java, and I wanted to help him, so we created a simple Hello World example.
 

public class Hello {

public static void main(String argv[]) {

system.out.println("Hello world !");

} 

}

then, when you compile it: 

> javac Hello.java

and want to execute it:

> java Hello

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

We set the CLASSPATH and JAVA_HOME enviroment variable correctly, and the problem was still the same..

When we copied the Hello.class into a lib directory of JAVA_HOME, it worked, but not from the current directory !

We tried different versions of java.. and do you know where this stupid problem is?

in the CLASSPATH there should be:
CLASSPATH=.;c:/programme/jboss/lib;c:/programme/
j2sdk1.4.2_08/lib;c:/programme/j2sdk1.4.2_08/jre/lib; ...

yes.. a dot .. it means, that it will search for classes bytecode in the current directory !

you can also tell java to search the current directory with the -classpath parameter

> java -classpath . Hello

Problems like this can really discourage java newbies, and that moment was very embarassing :)

 

我的解决方法如下：java 设置环境变量 path c:/jkd6/bin classpath c:/jdk6/lib/dt.jar; c:/jdk6/lib/tools.jar

 

接下来在dos中输入：

I've tried the command: set classpath=%classpath%;.; It works! Amazing Thanks.