Hanging jdk

[Adam Soren]

Hi, I've recently had an issue where a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError exception is hanging the jdk. I've found this happens with different versions. Is this correct behaviour? It means if a jar is missing from the setup the jdk hangs, this makes it difficult for our monitoring software to pick up the problem.
I'm sure I'm missing something
Thanks
Adam

[Cindy Glass]

Well, unless that application was written to recover from a ClassDefNotFoundError - which it shouldn't be, then this error should terminate the application.
Why is the classpath incorrect?
[ August 02, 2002: Message edited by: Cindy Glass ]

[Dave Landers]

My guess is that you are getting the Error in one thread, but others are still running and the VM won't exit till they are done.