Accessing classes in other jars from my jar

I have an small application which has several classes. I have created a jar by combining all this classes and in the manifest file, made one of my classes as the main class.
All of my classes in my jar file, use some classes from an external jar log4j.jar.
I am not able to access the classes in the log4j.jar file. I get a NoClassDefFound error.
Is there any way I can solve this problem without writing my own class loader?
Do I need to change my manifest.mf?
Sri.

hi,
as long as u've log4j.jar in ur CLASSPATH it should work...
how u r trying to use those classes? and what error you are getting??
regards
maulin

Even if I keep log4j.jar in my classpath, I am getting this error.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Logger
If I write all my application in a single java file, then it is working. But the moment I use a jar file, I get the above error.

hi sri,
well u can try one thing,
in the CLASSPATH...
if u've sequence,
yourJAR;log4j.jar then change it to be,
log4j.jar;yourJAR...
sequence does matter i guess..
regards
maulin

also,
tell me how u r running ur application from command line?
and the CLASSPATH setting u've..
regards
maulin

Hello Maulin,
Let me first thank you for the help and your time.
I am executing my jar like this
java -jar MyJar.jar
My manifest.mf looks like this.
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: MyMain
Classpath: lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar
My classpath setting is like this:
CLASSPATH=c:\jakarta-log4j-1.2.8\dist\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar

Originally posted by Sri Nivas:
My manifest.mf looks like this.
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: MyMain
Classpath: lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar

Classpath is the incorrect key. It should read:
Class-Path: lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar
And I believe that this setting overrides the system CLASSPATH, so it does not matter what that environment setting is.
Hope that this helps.