Presently, when i try to run my gwt application through eclipse I am getting a curious: "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService"
The intersting about this exception is that by command line firing a gwt:run my project loads and runs just fine. It is thorugh eclipse, where the classpath is even larger, that the exception happens. After creating a fancy perl script to farm the .jar files and directories indicated by oracle visual vm for sun.java.classpath system variable, i was able to track that my maven runtime project has this class under the following loacations: Search results are: $VAR1 = { '/home/nmatos/.m2/repository/com/google/gwt/gwt-servlet/2.4.0/gwt-servlet-2.4.0.jar' => [ 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService.class', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteServiceRelativePath.class' ], '/home/nmatos/.m2/repository/com/google/gwt/gwt-user/2.4.0/gwt-user-2.4.0.jar' => [ 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService.class', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService.java', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteServiceRelativePath.class', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteServiceRelativePath.java' ] }; On the other hand, when I use the google eclipse plugin to lunch the com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode , I have an even larger set of jar files containing this class (due to overhead jars that originate from automatic project configuration triggered by the eclipse plugin): Search results are: $VAR1 = { '/home/nmatos/Desktop/Applications/eclipse_20121024/plugins/com.google.gwt.eclipse.sdkbundle_2.4.0.v201208080121-rel-r42/gwt-2.4.0/gwt-servlet.jar' => [ 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService.class', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteServiceRelativePath.class' ], '/home/nmatos/Desktop/Applications/eclipse_20121024/plugins/com.google.gwt.eclipse.sdkbundle_2.4.0.v201208080121-rel-r42/gwt-2.4.0/gwt-user.jar' => [ 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService.class', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService.java', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteServiceRelativePath.class', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteServiceRelativePath.java' ], '/home/nmatos/.m2/repository/com/google/gwt/gwt-servlet/2.4.0/gwt-servlet-2.4.0.jar' => [ 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService.class', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteServiceRelativePath.class' ], '/home/nmatos/.m2/repository/com/google/gwt/gwt-user/2.4.0/gwt-user-2.4.0.jar' => [ 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService.class', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService.java', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteServiceRelativePath.class', 'com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteServiceRelativePath.java' ] }; Juding from the stack trace, jvm standard class loaders seem be used, they should farm the jars defined in -cp system variable: WARNING: Error starting handlers java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/gwt/user/client/rpc/RemoteService at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:791) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.IsolatedAppClassLoader.loadClass(IsolatedAppClassLoader.java:207) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:791) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.IsolatedAppClassLoader.loadClass(IsolatedAppClassLoader.java:207) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356) at org.mortbay.util.Loader.loadClass(Loader.java:91) at org.mortbay.util.Loader.loadClass(Loader.java:71) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Holder.doStart(Holder.java:73) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.doStart(ServletHolder.java:242) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.initialize(ServletHandler.java:685) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Context.startContext(Context.java:140) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.startContext(WebAppContext.java:1250) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.doStart(ContextHandler.java:517) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.doStart(WebAppContext.java:467) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.doStart(HandlerWrapper.java:130) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:224) at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:50) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.JettyContainerService.startContainer(JettyContainerService.java:205) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.AbstractContainerService.startup(AbstractContainerService.java:249) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerImpl.start(DevAppServerImpl.java:157) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.gwt.AppEngineLauncher.start(AppEngineLauncher.java:97) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode.doStartUpServer(DevMode.java:509) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase.startUp(DevModeBase.java:1068) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase.run(DevModeBase.java:811) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode.main(DevMode.java:311) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.RemoteService at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.IsolatedAppClassLoader.loadClass(IsolatedAppClassLoader.java:207) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356) ... 48 more Any hints on what is going wrong here? I'd say the runtime should have an over those of class found exception, if that even existed, not the other way around. Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/3Al-zITOjHcJ. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.