NoClassDefFoundError happens only on OS 5.0

[sn0wshrew]

I have an application that ran flawlessly on OSes 4.2.1, 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7. Unfortunately, it is having a problem on OS 5.0 - it mostly works, but whenever the user tries to go to a particular screen, nothing happens in the UI and the BlackBerry's event log shows the following error:

NoClassDefFoundError

Can anyone think of a reason why the screen's class would not be found in OS 5.0 only? Or a suggestion for how I might work around this?

For reference, the application is compiled using RAPC on the command line, and is distributed using OTA deployment.

[sn0wshrew]

For reference, I believe something similar may be happening to BeeJive:
BeeJive on New OS - BlackBerry Forums at CrackBerry.com

[Dougsg38p]

You need to pull the event log from the device and get the full stack trace.

My guess is that the application uses a deprecated constructor which was removed in 5.0 (there are several).

[sn0wshrew]

Thanks for the suggestion, Dougsg38p! I did pull a stack trace. The odd thing is, it's definitely throwing the error when I try to instantiate *one of my own classes*. I have a particular Screen that, whenever I try to use it (in several different places in the app), my app bombs out with this NoClassDefFoundError. I added some logging to verify that the error is definitely happening when I try to instantiate this class, not before or after.

It's very odd to me that one of my own classes could "go missing" from an app that works as-is on OS 4.7 and earlier. I added some logging in the constructor for this class - the constructor is not even being called (and is not present in the stack trace).

Any ideas would be very helpful!

[Dougsg38p]

Perhaps you screen is throwing the exception because it is attempting to instantiate a text field using a constructor that no longer exists?

The only other suggestion is that you are missing a COD file?

[sn0wshrew]

Indeed - when I remove all the interesting contents of that screen, it runs fine (although of course it's empty) - no error occurs. I will have to try re-adding elements to the screen one by one until it breaks again, ugh!

[sn0wshrew]

For the record, in case it helps anyone else, here is the deprecated constructor that I was calling that throws this NoClassDefFoundError on OS 5.0:

TextField(String label, String value, int maxLength, long style)

I changed it to an EditField, and now everything works fine:

EditField(String label, String value, int maxLength, long style)

I wish that RAPC would catch this at compile time.

[Dougsg38p]

You are welcome.

[sn0wshrew]

Appreciate it!