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exe4j gives me a notepad error file

I tried to make a exe from a jar file. it did well and when i am running it it gives a notepad error file like this, (when I run this on netbeans(shift+F6) it works properly)

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/netbeans/lib/awtextra/AbsoluteLayout at experiments.mp3Player.initComponents(mp3Player.java:115) at experiments.mp3Player.(mp3Player.java:26) at experiments.Main$1.run(Main.java:17) at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteLayout at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) ... 17 more*

Solution

  • In exe4j, you need to include ALL dependency Jars which your application uses. When you use the Netbeans form editor and it's "default" layout manager, you are required to include it's library Jar, which isn't part of the default JRE.

    exe4j

    Browse to your projects directory and look in the dist\lib directory. You will need to include ALL the jar files listed within