Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/itextpdf/text/Element

[karthik swamy]

I am getting subjected error even if there is class file present so please help me out of this ..

following is my java code :

package   pkh.kky;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Date;

public class PDFWriter{

   /**
    * @param args
    */
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       try {
           File file = new File("/home/hdfc/jboss-eap-6.4/standalone/deployments/ICM_UNB.war/WEB-INF/classes/interchange/dataobject/itext.pdf");
           FileOutputStream pdfFileout = new FileOutputStream(file);
           Document doc = new Document();
           PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, pdfFileout);

           doc.addAuthor("QuicklyJava.com");
           doc.addTitle("This is title");
           doc.open();

           Paragraph para1 = new Paragraph();
           para1.add("This is paragraph 1");

           Paragraph para2 = new Paragraph();
           para2.add("This is paragraph 2");

           doc.add(para1);
           doc.add(para2);

           doc.close();
           pdfFileout.close();

           System.out.println("Success!");
       } catch (Exception e) {
           e.printStackTrace();
       }
   }

}

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Are you running that program at the command line or through JBoss? IF the former, do you have itext.jar in your classpath?

[karthik swamy]

I am running this code through command in jboss server.
I compiled using javac -cp $CLASSPATH: and then the lib path and class also got compiled without any error but still it gives the same error.
So please hekp me out

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Right so it compiles. The problem is at runtime. Have you added the jar to JBoss' runtime classpath?

[harshdeep puri]

hi all,
i have fixed the above problem.Here problem with Classloader. we can overcome this by placing jar file in web-inf/lib/ext folder. Probably we could not seen this.It is the secondary loaction for classloader to load the jars or third party files. further deatils go through this url:

https://javarevisited.blogspot.com/2012/10/5-ways-to-add-multiple-jar-to-classpath-java.html