I coded a small application in Netbeans, and used the AbsoluteLayout it provides for designing the GUI. Everything compiles and runs fine within Netbeans, but after I JAR the project and try to execute it a NoClassDefFoundError is thrown. The exact error looks like this:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/netbeans/lib/awtextra/AbsoluteLayout

I don't have much experience with JARing, and this is the first application I've wrote with Netbeans, so I'm a bit lost as to why this is occuring. The manifest is written correctly, and I can see the the program begins execution, but this error is thrown when exected as a JAR.

Any idea how this problem can be fixed? Is there a way to include the missing class definitions with the JAR?

Try the following:

java -cp app.jar MainClass

Cheers

Martyn

Crava,

Sun do a quick jar tutorial that might help you out:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jar/

Cheers

Martyn

Aha, thanks for your advice!

But I did find a better way I think. Rather than include the class defs for the AbsoluteLayout with the jar, the Netbeans people suggest that you convert the GUI to a grid bag layout when distributing. So, by changing the big container JFrame to grid bag, and all smaller frames to null layout, I have an identical UI without the need for the absolute layout which everything was designed in.

If you want to see how it turned out, take a look here!

http://members.shaw.ca/webspacefordrit/pet/

It's a simple game, but people seem to enjoy it. Read the how-to if you're unsure how to play and need clarification!