Okay, Steve Meyer figured it out.

The app started up just fine, but the first time the "Inbox" class was called, 
it called it's superclass which has a static variable that loads a set of EOs 
from the database. That DB connection failed, which left the superclass 
uninitialized and therefor basically corrupt, and therefor the 
NoClassDefFoundError.

I think we'll be digging around looking for more issues like this. Soon.

Dave

PS, Sorry about the lack of stack trace.

On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:

> Any exceptions in the log on start up?  Were you upgrading something?  Are 
> you sure that this one instance did not just _not_ restart and so no see the 
> new code?
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:12 AM, David Avendasora wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Has anyone else ever seen this:
>> 
>> We have a server that is running 4 instances of one of our apps. Last night 
>> we restarted one of the instances and apparently it didn't properly load 1 
>> class that is part of one of our internal frameworks.
>> 
>> Every time a user tried a feature that used that one class, we got 
>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. The other instances of the same app started 
>> from the same files on the hard drive were running fine.
>> 
>> We restarted the affected instance and that eliminated the problem.
>> 
>> We couldn't find any errors in any of the logs that would explain why the 
>> class wouldn't have properly loaded.
>> 
>> It's all fine now, but this was a very strange issue.
>> 
>> Anyone ever run into something like that?
>> 
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