Re: jsp - newbie problem: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:28:09 -0400
Message-ID:
<XqmdnVYHjIuXZpXanZ2dnUVZ_s-pnZ2d@comcast.com>
Andrew Thompson wrote:

Perhaps one of the server-side gurus can expand
on the reasons to prefer coding servlets (directly)
over the 'intermediate' coding of JSP.


There shouldn't be Java scriptlet in the JSP. JSP is a view artifact. You
should POST to a "regular" servlet and have the servlet invoke business logic.
  Then, based on the outcome, the servlet does a RequestDispatcher forward()
to a JSP to present the results.

That said, OP, you haven't provided the entire code. Here's the stack trace
part of relevance:

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
        at LuceneIndexer.Indexer.initIndex(Indexer.java:76)
        at LuceneIndexer.Indexer.startup(Indexer.java:66)


This says that Indexer.java (a source not seen here on Usenet), line 76,
inside the method initIndex(), refers to an unfindable class.

(Incidentally, conventionally one uses all lower-case names for packages.
Rename your package from 'LuceneIndexer' to 'luceneindexer'.)

Here's what you claim is line 76:

The line which causes the error is Directory dir =
FSDirectory.getDirectory(indexDir);


I'm going to assume you meant:

Directory dir = FSDirectory.getDirectory(indexDir);

but you really need to get in the habit of providing an SSCCE
<http://www.physci.org/codes/sscce.html>
and formatting your posts.

That means that either 'Directory' or 'FSDirectory' is not in your class path.

Where do these classes come from?

--
Lew

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