I'm trying to debug why I cannot run any java on my RHEL 5 box. Right now I'm just trying to run an example .jar file I got from
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Jar/ABC/Downloadcosjar.htm
I'm not a java developer, just an end-user.
[xxxxx@xxxxx Desktop]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.4 (Tikanga)
[xxxxx@xxxxx Desktop]$ uname -a
Linux xxxxx 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 6 13:26:04 EST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[xxxxx@xxxxx Desktop]$ java cos.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: cos/jar
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: cos.jar
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:264)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:332)
[xxxxx@xxxxx Desktop]$