Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine or a classloader tries to load
in the definition of a class (as part of a normal method call or
as part of creating a new instance using the new
expression) and no definition of the class could be found.
The searched-for class definition existed when the currently
executing class was compiled, but the definition can no longer be
found.
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