Classpath Issue - but JAR file is in the classpath

Question

I'm having an issue getting a JAVA Application Client to run and would welcome any suggestions or input to resolve this problem. I'm not a developer, just the builder/deployer of the applications. There are two developers looking at this problem too, but they are stumped too.
It complains that it can't find sun/jdbc/rowset/CachedRowSet, which is contained in the rowset.jar - which is in the classpath. I've put all the supporting information below, if you need additional information please let me know and I'll provide it.
***** ERRORS FROM RUNNING SCRIPT BELOW *****
*** NOT Using Verbose: ***
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/jdbc/rowset/CachedRowSet
*** Using Verbose (only included the output with the error): ***
[Loading superclasses of com/actuate/schemas/SubmitJobResponse]
[Loaded java.sql.SQLException from /usr/java130/jre/lib/rt.jar]
[Loading superclasses of java/sql/SQLException]
[Signaling in VM: java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError, message: sun/jdbc/rowset/CachedRowSet]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/jdbc/rowset/CachedRowSet[Loaded sun.i
o.UnknownCharacterException from /usr/java130/jre/lib/rt.jar]
[Loading superclasses of sun/io/UnknownCharacterException]
[Preparing sun/io/UnknownCharacterException]
***** SCRIPT TO RUN THE JAVA COMMAND *****
#!/usr/bin/ksh
LIBDIR="/actuate/Mace/lib"
JAVA_CP=""
MAIN_JAR="MaceEXT.jar"
JAVA_PATH="/usr/java130/jre/bin"
JAVA_HOME="/usr/java130/jre"
JAVA_FULLVERSION=`$JAVA_PATH/java -fullversion`
JAVA_EXE=${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java
PATH=$JAVA_PATH:$PATH
export PATH
export JAVA_HOME
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/sljcx.jar"
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/sljc.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/rowset.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/wsdl4j.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/tt-bytecode.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/servlet.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/saaj.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/log4j-1.2.4.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/jaxrpc.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/commons-logging.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/axis.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/ivjejb35.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/j2ee.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/activation.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/mail.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/ns.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/xmlParserAPIs.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="${LIBDIR}/xercesImpl.jar":${JAVA_CP}
JAVA_CP="$JAVA_HOME/lib/rt.jar":${JAVA_CP}
echo ""
echo "Classpath"
echo $JAVA_CP
echo ""
echo "JAVA_Home"
echo $JAVA_HOME
echo ""
echo "JAVA_EXE"
echo $JAVA_EXE
echo ""
echo "JAVA_Path"
echo $JAVA_PATH
echo ""
echo "JAVA FullVersion"
echo $JAVA_FULLVERSION
#$JAVA_EXE -cp $JAVA_CP -jar $MAIN_JAR -h dev -c adduser -u 000 -p ""
$JAVA_EXE -verbose -cp $JAVA_CP -jar $MAIN_JAR -h dev -c adduser -u 000 -p ""
***** JAR -tvf OF ROWSET.JAR *****
server105:/actuate/Mace/lib $ jar -tfv rowset.jar
0 Tue Jun 13 19:45:42 EDT 2000 META-INF/
66 Tue Jun 13 19:45:42 EDT 2000 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
0 Tue Jun 13 19:45:30 EDT 2000 sun/
0 Tue Jun 13 19:45:30 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/
0 Tue Jun 13 19:45:42 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/
551 Tue Jun 13 19:45:30 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/BaseRow.class
9112 Tue Jun 13 19:45:32 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/BaseRowSet.class
35562 Tue Jun 13 19:45:36 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/CachedRowSet.class
597 Tue Jun 13 19:45:36 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/ColInfo.class
1290 Tue Jun 13 19:45:36 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/InsertRow.class
18442 Tue Jun 13 19:45:38 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/JdbcRowSet.class
2109 Tue Jun 13 19:45:38 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/Row.class
4489 Tue Jun 13 19:45:38 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/RowSetMetaDataImpl.class
4707 Tue Jun 13 19:45:38 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/RowSetReaderImpl.class
8270 Tue Jun 13 19:45:38 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/RowSetWriterImpl.class
4745 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/SQLInputImpl.class
3287 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/SQLOutputImpl.class
2326 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/SerialArray.class
1560 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/SerialBlob.class
1948 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/SerialClob.class
592 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/SerialRef.class
2419 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/SerialStruct.class
1903 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/WebRowSet.class
257 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/XmlReader.class
15620 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/XmlReaderDocHandler.class
2029 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/XmlReaderImpl.class
258 Tue Jun 13 19:45:40 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/XmlWriter.class
9797 Tue Jun 13 19:45:42 EDT 2000 sun/jdbc/rowset/XmlWriterImpl.class
***** ECHO OF VARIABLES FROM SCRIPT *****
Classpath
/usr/java130/jre/lib/rt.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/xercesImpl.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/xmlParserAPIs.jar:/ac
tuate/Mace/lib/ns.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/mail.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/activation.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/
j2ee.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/ivjejb35.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/axis.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/commons-logging
.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/jaxrpc.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/log4j-1.2.4.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/saaj.jar:/actu
ate/Mace/lib/servlet.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/tt-bytecode.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/wsdl4j.jar:/actuate/Mac
e/lib/rowset.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/sljc.jar:/actuate/Mace/lib/sljcx.jar
JAVA_Home
/usr/java130/jre
JAVA_EXE
/usr/java130/jre/bin/java
JAVA_Path
/usr/java130/jre/bin
JAVA FullVersion
java full version "J2RE 1.3.0 IBM build ca130-20020504"
***** DIRECTORY LISTING *****
server105:/actuate/Mace $ ls -lat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 actuate actuate 1673 Apr 04 09:11 go.sh
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 476699 Apr 03 12:37 MaceEXT.jar
drwxr-xr-x 2 actuate actuate 4096 Apr 02 10:49 lib
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 1818 Mar 28 11:15 MaceConfig.xml
server105:/actuate/Mace/lib $ ls -lat
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 32033 Apr 02 10:49 ivjejb35.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 329096 Apr 02 10:49 j2ee.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 374291 Apr 01 16:39 ns.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 654326 Apr 01 16:31 sljc.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 81987 Apr 01 16:31 sljcx.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 54368 Mar 31 08:32 activation.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 867459 Mar 31 08:32 axis.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 24287 Mar 31 08:31 commons-logging.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 32069 Mar 31 08:31 jaxrpc.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 378778 Mar 31 08:31 log4j-1.2.4.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 305414 Mar 31 08:31 mail.jar
-rwxrwxrwx 1 actuate actuate 62388 Mar 31 08:31 rowset.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 18468 Mar 31 08:31 saaj.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 78350 Mar 31 08:31 servlet.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 130773 Mar 31 08:31 tt-bytecode.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 109356 Mar 31 08:31 wsdl4j.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 933730 Mar 31 08:31 xercesImpl.jar
-rw-r----- 1 actuate actuate 78440 Mar 31 08:31 xmlParserAPIs.jar

Answer 1

All that script made my eyes glaze over, but it appears you are running your main class from an executable jar file. Is that correct? Executable jar files don't use the classpath. If you want them to refer to anything outside the executable jar, you have to put Class-Path entries in its manifest.