Class not found / wrong name when using wsgen

Question

I'm having an issue with wsgen and while I've seen some answers that worked none of those solutions seems to be working for me. I believe the problem is related to the structure of the source and binaries.

My WSTest project is setup with the following folders:

bin
└───com
    └───example
        └───ws
src
└───com
    └───example
        └───ws

The main class is Test which resides in package com.example.ws.

I'm running wsgen from the main project folder WSTest using the following command:

wsgen -cp ./bin/com/example/ws -d ./src/com/example/ws -s ./src/com/example/ws Test

This results in:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError (wrong name: com/example/ws/Test)

This makes sense since the class is part of a package. So I change my command to the following:

wsgen -cp ./bin/com/example/ws -d ./src/com/example/ws -s ./src/com/example/ws com.example.ws.Test

But now I get class not found from the wsgen tool:

Class not found: "com.example.ws.Test"

Usage: WSGEN [options]

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Have you tried something like this?

wsgen -cp ./bin -d ./src -s ./src com.example.ws.Test

The classpath folder is were wsgen looks for class files. The package within the class is resolved to folder paths, so com.example.ws.Test should be a file like com/example/ws/Test.class within the bin classpath folder.

From the Java documentation:

Each classpath should end with a filename or directory depending on what you are setting the class path to:

• For a .jar or .zip file that contains .class files, the class path ends with the name of the .zip or .jar file.
• For .class files in an unnamed package, the class path ends with the directory that contains the .class files.
• For .class files in a named package, the class path ends with the directory that contains the "root" package (the first package in the full package name).