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.

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.

我发现，当使用运行时发现的不兼容的类版本编译代码时，有时会得到NoClassDefFound错误。我记得的具体实例是apache axis库。在我的运行时类路径上实际上有2个版本，它正在挑选过时和不兼容的版本，而不是正确的版本，导致NoClassDefFound错误。这是在一个命令行应用程序中，我正在使用类似的命令。

set classpath=%classpath%;axis.jar

我能够让它拿起正确的版本使用:

set classpath=axis.jar;%classpath%;

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.

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)。

在我的情况下，由于JDK版本不匹配，我得到了这个错误。当我试图从Intelij运行应用程序时，它不工作，但从命令行运行它就工作了。这是因为Intelij试图用Java 11 JDK运行它，但在命令行上，它是用Java 8 JDK运行的。在文件>项目结构>项目设置>项目SDK下切换设置后，它为我工作了。