NoClassDefFoundError in jar file

[Alf Fernandez]

Hi,
I wrote a small MQ/Java program, which I encapsulate in a jar file.
If I include in the jar the com.ibm.mq classes, it works fine. But if I include only the classes that I have wrote, it launches de following exception, when run it:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/ibm/mq/MQException
Im sure the PATH and CLASSPATH are ok, because if I execute:
javap com/ibm/mq/MQException
it shows all the methods of the class.
Some help will be apreciated. Thanks

[Sean MacLean]

What environment are you running your program in? It sounds as though the environment your running in does not the com/ibm/mq/MQException class in *its* classpath. For instance, you'll often have a situation where you system classpath allows you to compile fine but when run in a web server, the server cannot find some classes. This is because the web server starts up and uses it own classpath to initialize it's JVM instance. Just a thought.
Sean