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com/sun/deploy/util/WinRegistry throws ClassNotFoundException Intellij Idea

I try to read a value from Windows Registry. This code works good, when I run it in Intellij Idea.

public static String getInstallLocationValue() {
    String value = WinRegistry.getString(
            WinRegistry.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
            "SOFTWARE\\" + ApplicationConstants.APP_NAME + "\\",
            "InstallLocation");
    System.out.println("Windows Distribution = " + value);
    return value;
}

But it crashes when I run it from jar file:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/deploy/util/WinRegistry at com.doos.utils.RegistryManager.getInstallLocationValue(RegistryManager.java:10) at com.doos.core.Main.main(Main.java:51)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.deploy.util.WinRegistry
    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)
    ... 2 more

Do you have any ideas, how to fix this?

Solution

  • I did not solve the problem with WinRegistry, instead I used the Advapi32Util class from the JNA library.