I have had an interesting issue wiht NoClassDefFoundError in JavaEE working with Liberty server. I was using IMS resource adapters and my server.xml had already resource adapter for imsudbJXA.rar. When I added new adapter for imsudbXA.rar, I would start getting this error for instance objects for DLIException, IMSConnectionSpec or SQLInteractionSpec. I could not figure why but I resolved it by creating new server.xml for my work using only imsudbXA.rar. I am sure using multiple resource adapters in server.xml is fine, I just had no time to look into that.

每个人都在这里谈论一些Java配置的东西，JVM的问题等，在我的情况下，错误与这些主题完全无关，有一个非常琐碎和容易解决的原因:我在我的控制器(Spring Boot应用程序)的端点有一个错误的注释。

有一个有趣的例子，你可能会看到很多NoClassDefFoundErrors:

在类的静态块中抛出一个RuntimeException 拦截它(或者如果它在测试用例中抛出并不重要) 尝试创建该类的实例

static class Example {
    static {
        thisThrowsRuntimeException();
    }
}

static class OuterClazz {

    OuterClazz() {
        try {
            new Example();
        } catch (Throwable ignored) { //simulating catching RuntimeException from static block
            // DO NOT DO THIS IN PRODUCTION CODE, THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE in StackOverflow
        }

        new Example(); //this throws NoClassDefFoundError
    }
}

NoClassDefError将伴随来自静态块RuntimeException的ExceptionInInitializerError一起抛出。

当你在UNIT TESTS中看到NoClassDefFoundErrors时，这一点尤其重要。

在某种程度上，您在测试之间“共享”静态块执行，但初始的ExceptionInInitializerError将仅在一个测试用例中。第一个使用有问题的Example类。其他使用Example类的测试用例只会抛出NoClassDefFoundErrors。

我在项目中使用Spring Framework和Maven解决了这个错误。

类中存在运行时错误。我将一个属性读取为整数，但是当它从属性文件读取值时，它的值是double。

Spring没有提供运行时在哪一行上失败的完整堆栈跟踪。 它只是说NoClassDefFoundError。但是当我作为一个原生Java应用程序执行它时(将它从MVC中取出)，它给出了ExceptionInInitializerError，这是真正的原因，也是我跟踪错误的方式。

@xli的回答让我洞察到我的代码中可能存在的错误。

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。

这是由于您的代码所依赖的类文件在编译时存在，但在运行时没有找到。寻找构建时和运行时类路径的差异。