Jdeveloper 11g deployed jar not running - Windows 7

Question

After I deployed a simple form to a jar, the following message comes up when trying to run with command: java -jar  sw.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: oracle/jbo/uicli/controls/JUNavigationBar
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jbo.uicli.controls.JUNavigationBar
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:305)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:246)
Could not find the main class: asax.view.Form. Program will exit.
Manifest.MF contains the following:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: asax.view.Form
I have also added all libraries and veririfed they exist within the jar 's root.
Within jdeveloper the application runs with no problem.
I 'd appreciate any ideas any help on this..

Answer 1

If you run a jar from the command line, the class loader don't look into the jar for other jars needed and hence you get a class not found error.
If you start the app in JDev and look at the log window, you'll notice that jdev puts all needed jars on the classpath. This way the app finds them and the app runs OK.
This is not a jdev problem, but a general java problem. To make it run you can unzip the jar and set the classpath when starting the app to include the folder which contains the jars.
Timo