Java – Error running Storm with Redis : java. lang. NoClassDefFoundError: Lredis/clients/jedis/Jedis

My Storm class uses Redis queues to collect data.

I tried running my Storm jar

storm jar jar_file_name.jar Topology_name configuration_file

But I got the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Lredis/clients/jedis/Jedis;
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2397)
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredField(Class.java:1946)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.getDeclaredSUID(ObjectStreamClass.java:1659)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.access$700(ObjectStreamClass.java:72)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass$2.run(ObjectStreamClass.java:480)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass$2.run(ObjectStreamClass.java:468)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.<init>(ObjectStreamClass.java:468)
    at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.lookup(ObjectStreamClass.java:365)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1133)
    at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:347)
    at backtype.storm.utils.Utils.serialize(Utils.java:77)
    at backtype.storm.topology.TopologyBuilder.createTopology(TopologyBuilder.java:111)
    at OutlierPredictor.main(OutlierPredictor.java:98)
 Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: redis.clients.jedis.Jedis
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)

I compile and use

javac -classpath $HADOOP_CORE:$HBASE_CLASSPATH:/usr/local/hadoop-  2.2.0/redis_jar/commons-pool-1.5.5.jar:/usr/local/hadoop-2.2.0/redis_jar/jedis-2.1.0.jar:/ usr/local/apache-storm-0.9.2-incubating/lib/storm-core-0.9.2-incubating.jar -d dir_name/ dir_name/Javafile.java 

From the command line.

I do this in a single node setup.

What went wrong?

You need to package all your code and dependencies into a single jar.

QuoteStorm tutorial, topology section,

Running a topology is straightforward. First, you package all your
code and dependencies into a single jar. Then, you run a command like
the following:

storm jar all-my-code.jar backtype.storm.MyTopology arg1 arg2

You may have to use some packaging tool, such as OneJAR, JarJar, or ANT, and create a jar that contains all the files and dependencies. Please quote these SO posts

1. Merging Multiple Jars in to a Single Jar
2. Easiest way to merge a release into one JAR file