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。

对此，我的解决方案是为缺失的特定类“利用”类路径内容。在我的情况下，我有2个依赖项，虽然我能够成功地编译使用javac…，我不能运行产生的类文件使用java…，因为BouncyCastle jar中的Dynamic类不能在运行时加载。

javac --classpath "ext/commons-io-2.11.0;ext/bc-fips-1.0.2.3" hello.java

因此在编译时和运行时，JVM知道在哪里获取Apache Commons和BouncyCastle依赖项，然而，当运行这个时，我得到了

Error: Unable to initialize main class hello
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
org/bouncycastle/jcajce/provider/BouncyCastleFipsProvider

因此，根据类路径，我在相同的位置手动创建了一个名为ext的新文件夹，然后在其中放置了BouncyCastle jar，以确保在运行时可以找到它。只要结果清单中指定了jar的位置，您就可以将jar相对于类文件或jar文件放置。注意，我只需要利用包含丢失类文件的一个jar。

更新[https://www.infoq.com/articles/single-file-execution-java11/]:

在Java SE 11中，可以选择启动单个源代码文件 直接，不需要中间编译。为了方便大家， 所以像你这样的新手不需要运行javac + Java(当然， 让他们感到困惑)。

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;
}

虽然这可能是由于编译时和运行时之间的类路径不匹配造成的，但这并不一定是真的。

在这种情况下，记住两到三个不同的异常是很重要的:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException This exception indicates that the class was not found on the classpath. This indicates that we were trying to load the class definition, and the class did not exist on the classpath. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError This exception indicates that the JVM looked in its internal class definition data structure for the definition of a class and did not find it. This is different than saying that it could not be loaded from the classpath. Usually this indicates that we previously attempted to load a class from the classpath, but it failed for some reason - now we're trying to use the class again (and thus need to load it, since it failed last time), but we're not even going to try to load it, because we failed loading it earlier (and reasonably suspect that we would fail again). The earlier failure could be a ClassNotFoundException or an ExceptionInInitializerError (indicating a failure in the static initialization block) or any number of other problems. The point is, a NoClassDefFoundError is not necessarily a classpath problem.

这也可能是因为您从具有特定包名的IDE复制了代码文件，并且希望尝试使用终端运行它。您必须首先从代码中删除包名。 这种事发生在我身上。