Error occurred during initialization of VM ..java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError :

[Ramesh Subramanian]

Hello,
I installed jdk1.3,jre1.3 on windows 98.
I can able to successfully compile the programs.but while running the program it gives me the following error
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError :java/lang/Object
In the classpath i'm having as c:\jdk1.3\bin
i can able to run the same program in c:jdk1.3\bin but, not in my own directory viz c:\java_pgms
while seeing the JavaRuntimeEnvironment in the regedit, it shows
1. Runtimelib path as
C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3\bin\hotspot\jvm.dll
2.JavaHome path as
C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3
Can anyone pl help me,whether i have to add some other path in the classpath?
Help me to come out of this problem
Thanks in Advance

[Paul Wetzel]

try adding the lib to the class path "c:\jdk1.3\lib"

[Rukmani Gopalan]

Hi,
The problem is ur CLASSPATH. When u run a program, the java.exe basically searches for the class(which u get by compiling the program) in ur CLASSPATH. Since u don't have ur directory in the CLASSPATH, it does not find it. U set the classpath variable also to the current directory. Then cd to the directory where u have ur programs and then run it.
Hope this is the problem.