[ale] ClassNotFoundException even though the class is there

[Jason Fritcher]

On Jul 12, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Jim Philips wrote:
>> I'll paste it all below. This worked flawlessly until Java was  
>> updated by
>> apt-get on July 2.
>
> This is.. THE classic problem with Java.
>
> What you had worked with the version you had..
> and you have been updated into oblivion.
>
> Sure, I've bad a few issues when Perl or PHP has gone through major
> updates. But Java seens to do this every time. and has for years.


Java development is my day job, and I rarely have problems with JVM  
upgrades. Only times I've had problems is when the updates fail or  
some corruption occurs. A message earlier indicated the update got  
interrupted and a subsequent reinstall fixed the problem.

I used to do Perl development many years ago, and I had many more  
problems with language or library changes breaking my code than I have  
with Java.


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Jason Fritcher
jkf at wolfnet.org