Great article. I had been hunting down a similar issue in Java 8 with maven dependencies. I was getting the same error, but confirmed that the dependent jars we

Great article. I had been hunting down a similar issue in Java 8 with maven dependencies. I was getting the same error, but confirmed that the dependent jars were correctly included on the classpath. I eventually gave up and decided to take a different programming approach that did not include these missing classes, but I think I will revisit it to see if a class loader is getting closed somehow.