同一项目的两个不同的签出副本

In my case, the problem was Eclipse's inability to differentiate between two different copies of the same project. I have one locked on trunk (SVN version control) and the other one working in one branch at a time. I tried out one change in the working copy as a JUnit test case, which included extracting a private inner class to be a public class on its own and while it was working, I open the other copy of the project to look around at some other part of the code that needed changes. At some point, the NoClassDefFoundError popped up complaining that the private inner class was not there; double-clicking in the stack trace brought me to the source file in the wrong project copy.

关闭项目的主干副本并再次运行测试用例可以解决这个问题。

我从SRC库中删除了两个文件后得到了这个消息，当我把它们带回来时，我一直看到这个错误消息。

我的解决方案是:重新启动Eclipse。从那以后我就再没见过这条消息了:-)

如果有人因为java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Logger错误来到这里，在我的例子中，它是因为我使用了log4j 2(但我没有添加它附带的所有文件)，而一些依赖库使用了log4j 1。解决方案是添加Log4j 1。X桥:log4j-1.2-api-<version>.jar，随log4j 2而来。更多信息在log4j 2迁移中。

当我试图在Tomcat/JBOSS服务器上部署应用程序时，我得到了NoClassDefFoundError。我尝试了不同的依赖关系来解决这个问题，但总是得到相同的错误。标记所有javax。*依赖提供在pom.xml，和战争字面上没有依赖。但这个问题还是不断出现。

最终意识到src/main/webapps/WEB-INF/classes有类文件夹被复制到我的战争，所以不是编译类，这个类被复制，因此没有依赖改变解决问题。

因此要小心，如果任何以前编译的数据被复制，删除类文件夹和新的编译后，它工作!..

当静态初始化器试图加载一个在运行时不可用的资源包时，也会发生NoClassDefFoundError，例如受影响的类试图从META-INF目录加载一个属性文件，但不存在。如果你没有捕获NoClassDefFoundError，有时你将无法看到完整的堆栈跟踪;为了克服这个问题，你可以临时为Throwable使用一个catch子句:

try {
    // Statement(s) that cause(s) the affected class to be loaded
} catch (Throwable t) {
    Logger.getLogger("<logger-name>").info("Loading my class went wrong", t);
}

下面是演示java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError的代码。具体的解释请看Jared的回答。

NoClassDefFoundErrorDemo.java

public class NoClassDefFoundErrorDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            // The following line would throw ExceptionInInitializerError
            SimpleCalculator calculator1 = new SimpleCalculator();
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            System.out.println(t);
        }
        // The following line would cause NoClassDefFoundError
        SimpleCalculator calculator2 = new SimpleCalculator();
    }

}

SimpleCalculator.java

public class SimpleCalculator {
    static int undefined = 1 / 0;
}