Splash Screen generates java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Eapply errors.

Question

Hi Everyone,
Again, I am new to Java (2nd month actually coding) and don't know of a better place to post this problem. Also, the forum does not have a search feature (that I can see) so I apologize if this issue has been raised and discussed before (which it probably has been).
I am trying to utilize the new splash screen facility in SE 6 but have run into a problem. The image will display just fine but I get 'class not found' exceptions immediately afterwards. It seems as if the launcher cannot see the class containing main.
I guess I need to mention the fact that I am using the Galileo version of Eclipse. I checked the project settings and confirmed that the class, in this case, Eapply, is in fact in the class path so I am at a loss as to why it cannot be found. My code reads pretty much like every example I have seen of the splash screen functionality, so I can only imagine that the problem lies within environmental settings or something else I am not taking into account.
Here is the code I am using minus any lines not necessary to illustrate the problem:
Command line
-splash:images/vessels.jpg Eapply
Class
public class Eapply extends App implements ActionListener {
     public Eapply() throws SQLException {
          super("E-Apply Electronic Application", App.getCompanyID(), true);
     public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException, ParseException {
          eapp = new Eapply();     
The stack trace
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Eapply
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Eapply
     at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319)
     at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:330)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:254)
     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:402)
Any suggestions you can offer will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You,
Ricky

Answer 1

RickyM wrote:
I fixed the problem. Seems as if the classpath, while being launched within Eclipse, was correct. However, the classpath was not set correctly if you tried to launch the app from outside of eclipse. To fix the problem, I specified the -classpath option on the command line.That's a very typical problem, and one reason why IDE's should not become addictive to the point that you can't do anything without it. Yes the IDE handles setting the classpath for you. But of course the actual users running the software will not be using an IDE to run it, so you must become very acquainted with what the classpath is and how to use it.