Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

[javoine]

Hello, I'm looking for some help with this please. I'm on a Win2000 platform trying to execute the start for tomcat through catalina.bat. The following code is at the bottom in catalina.bat. but everytime i try to run the startup for tomcat i get this:Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

any suggestions? pretty please? thanx in advance to all tomcat/java gurus who can help me out.

rem Execute the Tomcat launcher
"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe" -classpath %PRG%\..;%PRG%\..\..\jwsdp-shared\bin;"%PRG%\..\..\jwsdp-shared\bin\commons-launcher.jar";"%PRG%\..\..\jakarta-ant-1.5.1\lib\ant.jar";"%PRG%\..\..\jakarta-ant-1.5.1\lib\optional.jar";"%PRG%\..\..\jaxp-1.2.2\lib\jaxp-api.jar";"%PRG%\..\..\jaxp-1.2.2\lib\endorsed\sax.jar";"%PRG%\..\..\jaxp-1.2.2\lib\endorsed\dom.jar";"%PRG%\..\..\jaxp-1.2.2\lib\endorsed\xercesImpl.jar";"%PRG%\..\..\jaxp-1.2.2\lib\endorsed\xalan.jar";"%PATH%" LauncherBootstrap jwsdp -DJAVA_HOME="%JAVA_HOME%" -DCATALINA_OPTS="%CATALINA_OPTS%" %CMD_LINE_ARGS%

 

[sedj]

Make sure that the CLASSPATH variable points to the dirs that your code is in - this error indicates that the JVM cannot reference the class you are trying to invoke ...