JWS application won't start

Hello,
I'm having trouble getting by Java Web Start to work. I'm trying to follow along with this tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/deployment/webstart/deploying.html and I'm getting stuck at the point when the application is supposed to start. Instead, it gives me the error message:
"Unable to launch the application"
and under details --> Exception it says:
"java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloWorldJFrame
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.jnlp.JNLPClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)"
For some reason, it can't find the HelloWorldJFrame class.
I've got the following files all in the same folder: HelloWorldGUI.jar, helloworldgui.jnlp, and helloworldgui.html.
Here's helloworldgui.jnlp:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jnlp>
     <information>
          <title>Hello World GUI</title>
          <vendor>Gibran Shah</vendor>
     </information>
     <resources>
          <jar href="HelloWorldGUI.jar"/>
     </resources>
     <application-desc main-class="HelloWorldJFrame"></application-desc>
</jnlp>Here's HelloWorldJFrame.java, the file containing the class containing public static void main (String[]) (produced by NetBeans):
* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
* HelloWorldJFrame.java
* Created on Jun 21, 2010, 11:47:12 AM
* @author gibran
public class HelloWorldJFrame extends javax.swing.JFrame {
    /** Creates new form HelloWorldJFrame */
    public HelloWorldJFrame() {
        initComponents();
    /** This method is called from within the constructor to
     * initialize the form.
     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is
     * always regenerated by the Form Editor.
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    // //GEN-BEGIN:initComponents
    private void initComponents() {
        jLabel1 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setTitle("Hello World GUI");
        jLabel1.setText("Hello World");
        javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
        layout.setHorizontalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addContainerGap()
                .addComponent(jLabel1)
                .addContainerGap(javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE))
        layout.setVerticalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addContainerGap()
                .addComponent(jLabel1)
                .addContainerGap(javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE))
        pack();
    }// //GEN-END:initComponents
    * @param args the command line arguments
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new HelloWorldJFrame().setVisible(true);
    // Variables declaration - do not modify//GEN-BEGIN:variables
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel1;
    // End of variables declaration//GEN-END:variables
}I know it works because I compiled it and ran it from a command prompt. It's just a simple GUI (JFrame) with a label that says "Hello World".
Finally, here's my HTML file:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World GUI</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="http://www.java.com/js/deployJava.js"></script>
<script>
    // using JavaScript to get location of JNLP file relative to HTML page
        var dir = location.href.substring(0, location.href.lastIndexOf('/')+1);
        var url = dir + "helloworldgui.jnlp";
        deployJava.createWebStartLaunchButton(url, '1.6.0');
</script>


</body>
</html>The jar file was made (as instructed in the above tutorial) from the compiled file HelloWorldJFrame.class and possibly HelloWorldJFrame$1.class (though I have no idea what this last one is).
I've searched online for a solution to this problem to no avail. Does anyone see where I went wrong?
Edited by: gib65 on Jun 21, 2010 2:32 PM
Edited by: gib65 on Jun 21, 2010 2:34 PM

Actually, the problem was that I had to make the class files part of a package and to specify that package in the application-desc tag. The question that leaves me with is whether and how it's possible to do it without packaging.
I went back to unpackaging and tried your suggestion. There's some difficulty however as it is not running under a domain name, it's just sitting on my desktop. So I tried:
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="C:\Documents and Settings\gibran.GIBCOMPUTER\Desktop\java\JavaWS\" href="helloworldgui.jnlp">
and variants thereof... none of which worked. It tells me:
The field <jnlp>codebase has an invalid value: C:\Documents...
Anything special I have to do if its running on my desktop?

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import java.awt.Color;
import java.net.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.AbstractButton;
public class db_queryTool extends JFrame {
JComboBox options;
GridBagLayout gbMain;
GridBagConstraints gbcMain;
public db_queryTool() {
     super();
public void init() {
     this.getContentPane().setLayout(gbMain);
     gbcMain.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL;
     gbcMain.anchor = GridBagConstraints.CENTER;
     options = new JComboBox();
     gbcMain.insets = new Insets(1,1,1,1);
     gbcMain.gridx = 0;
     gbcMain.gridy = 1;
     gbcMain.gridheight = 1;
     gbcMain.gridwidth = 1;
     gbcMain.weightx = 1.0;
     gbMain.setConstraints(options, gbcMain);
     add(options);
     setVisible(true);
public static void main(String[] args) {
     new db_queryTool();

Or try adding the init() method to your constructor
public db_queryTool() {
super();
init();

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