java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError when running ant

Question

I'm using some external jar files in my program. One of this jar is created by me. When I'm using this jar file in an eclipse project it is working fine. But when I'm trying to do the same using ant it is showing NoClassDefFoundError. It is not been able to get the class inside my jar file.

My main method is like this:

import pckg.harness.SomeClass;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) 
{
        SomeClass someClass=new SomeClass();
        someClass.runSomeMethod();
    }
}

My build.xml is like:

<project basedir="." default="run" name="project">
  <property name="src" location="src" />
  <property name="libs" location="lib" />
  <path id="class.path">
      <pathelement location="${libs}/ExtJarOne.jar" />
      <pathelement location="${libs}/ExtJarTwo.jar" />
      <pathelement location="${libs}/ExtJarThree.jar" />
      <pathelement location="bin" />
  </path>

 <target name="compile">
    <javac classpathref="class.path" srcdir="${src}" destdir="./bin"/>
  </target> 

  <target name="jar"  depends="compile">
       <mkdir dir="jar"/>
    <jar destfile="./jar/Class.jar" basedir="./bin">
        <manifest>
            <attribute name="Main-Class" value="pckg.main.Main"/>
    </manifest>
        </jar>
    </target>

    <target name="run"  depends="jar">
        <java jar="./jar/Class.jar" fork="true"/>
    </target>

</project>

Now when I'm running my ant, I'm getting following error:

run:
     [java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: pckg/harn
ess/SomeClass
     [java]     at pckg.main.Main.main(Unknown Source)
     [java] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: pckg.harness.SomeClass
     [java]     at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
     [java]     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     [java]     at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
     [java]     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
     [java]     at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)

     [java]     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
     [java]     ... 1 more
     [java] Java Result: 1

Answer 1

Since SomeClass isn't part of your Class.jar, you need to define classpath for java target:

<java jar="./jar/Class.jar" classpath="class.path" fork="true"/>