[ale] ClassNotFoundException even though the class is there

[meuon at geeklabs.com (Mike Harrison)]

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.