http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/mlvm-dev/2011-August/003797.html
Running an Rtalk test case with the runtime on the class path results in NCDFEs:
$ java -cp RtalkTest.jar ri/experiment2/RtalkTest
...
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ri/core/rtalk/RtObject
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ri/core/rtalk/RtObject
at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.invokeExact(MethodHandle.java)
at rtPbc.r175.invoke(Integer riBase64StringPaddedTo::99)
at rtPbc.r174.invoke(String riListHeader::16)
at rtPbc.r170.invoke(String riListStringTag::31)
at rtPbc.r161.invoke(RiRmtViewCode viewerDefBrowserOn::241)
at rtPbc.r147.invoke(RiRmtViewCode subscribe::53)
at rtPbc.r146.invoke(RiRmtViewCode handleSystemMessage::28)
at rtPbc.r85.block$3(RiSystemMessageManager handleMessage::78)
at ri.core.rtalk.RtPrimitives.primBlockInvokeWith(RtPrimitives.java:1172)
at rtPbc.r46.invoke(RtBlock1Arg value:)
at rtPbc.r45.invoke(OrderedCollection do::14)
at rtPbc.r85.invoke(RiSystemMessageManager handleMessage::85)
at rtPbc.r5.invoke(RiSystemMessageManager class receiveMessage::10)
at ri.core.rtalk.RtCallSite.sendSmToRtalk(RtCallSite.java:456)
at ri.experiment2.RtalkTest.testSM(RtalkTest.java:197)
at ri.experiment2.RtalkTest.testImageLoadFile(RtalkTest.java:138)
at ri.experiment2.RtalkTest.main(RtalkTest.java:25)
...