| Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine or a ClassLoader instance
tries to load in the definition of a class (as part of a normal method call
or as part of creating a new instance using the new expression)
and no definition of the class could be found.
The searched-for class definition existed when the currently
executing class was compiled, but the definition can no longer be
found.
author: unascribed version: 1.29, 05/05/07 since: JDK1.0 |