I stumbled upon a weird error while using JDBC sqlite with org.sqlite.JDBC
my code compiles and runs fine on Windows.
But when I tried moving it to Ubuntu it started showing this:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.sqlite.JDBC
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:372)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:360)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:259)
at mall.SQLiteJDBC.<init>(SQLiteJDBC.java:27)
at mall.AllegroReader.<init>(AllegroReader.java:33)
at mall.Mall.main(Mall.java:31)
I'm running it with java -classpath "sqlite-jdbc-3.7.2.jar" -jar Mall.jar"
and java -classpath "sqlite-jdbc4-3.8.2-SNAPSHOT.jar" -jar Mall.jar
with both versions in the same directory as my jar and I've tried a dozen different options specifying classpath and it behaves exactly the same. I tried openjdk and oracle jdk.
I tried rebuilding it on Ubuntu, changing ant .xmls, changing paths, etc.
I have no idea what is going on. Pls help.
Here is what happens inside my dist directory:
work1@workwork:/var/www/mall/dist$ ls
mall.db Mall.jar Mall.jar.old sqlite-jdbc-3.8.4.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
work1@workwork:/var/www/mall/dist$ java -classpath "sqlite-jdbc-3.8.4.3-SNAPSHOT.jar:Mall.jar" Mall
Error: Could not find or load main class Mall
The classpath is ignored when you use
-jar
.You have to either include the dependencies in the jar (or at least have the jar manifest point to them), or run it with
-classpath sqlite.jar:Mall.jar the.main.class
.So the correct command line is:
OP findings
to view the classes in jar use
jar tf Mall.jar
- from this I gotmall/Mall.class
meaning my class containing main wasmall.Mall
it showed
mall/Mall.class
so I should have used mall.Mall as the class to run (instead of pulling my hair)