class not found error

hey frnds,

i m getting the following error evertime i run ne java prog.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:'filename'

my class path is: C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3\lib\ext\QTJava.zip;

it was working a few days ago, dont know what happend now.

please help....

[326 byte] By [uditBa] at [2007-10-3 4:28:29]
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ensure u r classpath to pointed to u r javainstallation bin and rt.jari think that is only class path problem
chantisonataa at 2007-7-14 22:31:27 > top of Java-index,Developer Tools,Debugging and Profiling Tool APIs...