Class not found error when running the trial example from Headfirst book

[Sudhir V]

I am having problem with the trial example given in the first chapter of the HeadFirst EJB book. I followed all the steps for creation/deployment. Now when I am trying to execute the client I am getting a noclassdeffound error. I have not set the CLASSPATH enviro variable instead I am using the
-classpath option. Details are as shown below:
C:\sudhir\ejb_scripts\advice>java -cp AdviceAppClient.jar AdviceClient
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: AdviceClient
C:\sudhir\ejb_scripts\advice>dir
Volume in drive C is HP_PAVILION
Volume Serial Number is 3431-502D
Directory of C:\sudhir\ejb_scripts\advice
11/29/2003 01:48a <DIR> .
11/29/2003 01:48a <DIR> ..
11/29/2003 01:01a 3,411 AdviceApp.ear
11/29/2003 01:01a 21,725 AdviceAppClient.jar
11/29/2003 01:51a 1,435 AdviceClient.class
11/29/2003 01:28a 585 AdviceClient.java
11/28/2003 08:58p <DIR> classes
11/29/2003 02:17a 453 cloudscape.LOG
11/28/2003 08:58p <DIR> src
Thanks

[Magnus Stattin]

I had the same problem and resolved it by adding the path to the client to the classpath like this:
java -cp AdviceAppClient.jar;C:\sudhir\ejb_scripts\advice AdviceClient
Hope it helps
/Magnus

[Sudhir V]

Thanks. I executed it but then I am getting a new error.
C:\sudhir\ejb_scripts\advice>java -cp C:\j2sdkee1.3.1\ lib\j2ee.jar;AdviceAppClient.jar;C:\sudhir\ejb_scripts\advice AdviceClient
java.rmi.RemoteException: CORBA BAD_OPERATION 0 No; nested exception is:
org.omg.CORBA.BAD_OPERATION: minor code: 0 completed: No
org.omg.CORBA.BAD_OPERATION: minor code: 0 completed: No
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:232)
at com.sun.corba.ee.internal.iiop.messages.ReplyMessage_1_2.getSystemExc
eption(ReplyMessage_1_2.java:93)
at com.sun.corba.ee.internal.iiop.ClientResponseImpl.getSystemException(
ClientResponseImpl.java:108)
at com.sun.corba.ee.internal.POA.GenericPOAClientSC.invoke(GenericPOACli
entSC.java:132)
at org.omg.CORBA.portable.ObjectImpl._invoke(ObjectImpl.java:454)
at headfirst._Advice_Stub.getAdvice(Unknown Source)
at AdviceClient.go(AdviceClient.java:21)
at AdviceClient.main(AdviceClient.java:10)

[Sudhir V]

This is the code for the AdviceClient.java
import javax.naming.*;
import java.rmi.*;
import javax.rmi.*;
import headfirst.*;
import javax.ejb.*;
public class AdviceClient {

public static void main(String[] args) {
new AdviceClient().go();
}

public void go() {
try {
Context ic = new InitialContext();
Object o = ic.lookup("Advisor");

AdviceHome home = (AdviceHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(o, AdviceHome.class);

Advice advisor = home.create();
System.out.println (advisor.getAdvice());
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace ();
}
}
}

[Sudhir V]

Followed kathy's steps and renamed the method getAdvice and its working now
Thanks