whats the error!

[chitra ratnawat]

Program given below is compiling but at run time its throwing Exception
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError : FileWriter
i am not able to catch it .can any body answer it?

import java.io.*;
class FileWriterDemo{
public static void main(String ar[]) throws Exception{
String s ="abcdefghi";
int a = s.length();
char c[]= new char[a];
s.getChars(0,a,c,0);
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter("in.txt");
for(int i=0;i<c.length;i++){>
fw.write(c[i]);
}
//fw.close();
}
}

[nitin sharma]

import java.io.*;
class FileWriterDemo
{
public static void main(String ar[]) throws Exception
{
FileWriter fw;
String s ="abcdefghi";
int a = s.length();
char c[]= new char[a];
s.getChars(0,a,c,0);
fw = new FileWriter("in.txt");
for(int i=0;i<a;i++)>
{
fw.write(c[i]);
}
}
}
The above given code is working fine.I have compiled it and no runtime exception was thrown.

[Shiraz Bhagwagar]

This is the same question I had posted on the Java in General(Beginner) forum. Loaded all possible patches and reinstalled Java. Of no use. It still doesnot work. Can anybody figure this out???

[Cindy Glass]

This code compiles fine and runs fine (well, without an input file it doesn't DO much but . . . ).
If it compiled fine, that means that your path statement is set up nicely. If it can not find the SAME files when it runs, that means that your classpath does not have all the same stuff in it that your path does. In this case it is one of the JRE classes so make sure that you classpath has c:\jdk1.3.0\bin (or whatever you called it) in the path as well as the location of the classes that YOU are compiling.