ejb jar giving exception while running weblogic

[rajareddy annavaarm]

<Mar 29, 2007 10:30:50 AM GMT+05:30> <Error> <Deployer> <BEA-149205> <Failed toinitialize the application _appsdir_LriEARrel1_0_ear due to error weblogic.management.ApplicationException: prepare failed for lriEJBrel1_0.jar{
Module Name: lriEJBrel1_0.jar, Error: Exception preparing module: EJBModule(lriEJBrel1_0.jar,status=NEW)
Unable to deploy EJB: .\myserver\stage\_appsdir_LriEARrel1_0_ear\lriEJBrel1_0.jar from lriEJBrel1_0.jar:
weblogic.ejb20.WLDeploymentException: [EJB:010106]EJB : ejb/lri/LriRequisitionEJ
BRef .Unable to initialize method info for remote or home interface. The error is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sns/legal/lri/util/LriPopulateReq
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1627)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:1655)
at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Class.java:815)
at weblogic.ejb20.deployer.ClientDrivenBeanInfoImpl.initializeMethodInfo
s(ClientDrivenBeanInfoImpl.java:1224)
at weblogic.ejb20.deployer.ClientDrivenBeanInfoImpl.<init>(ClientDrivenBeanInfoImpl.java:266)
at weblogic.ejb20.deployer.SessionBeanInfoImpl.<init>(SessionBeanInfoImpl.java:74)

[Paul Sturrock]

The error is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sns/legal/lri/util/LriPopulateReq

There is a class missing from your classpath. Make sure you are deploying whatever jar contains this class to the correct place in your application.