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On 26/02/14 18:22, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 17:53:40 +0000, lipska the kat
> <lipskathekat@example.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
> who said :
>
>>>> NoClassDefFoundError
>>>
>>> My condolences.
>>
>> Very funny, <huge grin>
>
> The problem is there are so many different things you can do wrong
> that generate the error.
>
> I would hope Oracle could find some way to subclass
> NoClassDefFoundError the way IOException is, to give you a better hint
> on just what you screwed up, or perhaps to include more hints in the
> message.
>
> Tracking down NoClassDefFoundError is one of the most onerous errors.

Agreed, classpath confusions notwithstanding, (which IME can cause a lot 
of problems to noobs) Apache commons stuff is not so bad, you can get to 
the commons site and track down the relevant jar easily enough but 
trying to figure out which jar contains 
com.foobar.hidden.widget.PoopScoop and where to get it is a different 
matter altogether.


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