title: Hive JDBC connection giving NoClassDefFoundError
body: <p>I am trying to create a connection and getMataData() for my local hive server instance (thrift).  </p>
  
  <p>Following is the code I am trying:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>Class cl = Class.forName("org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver");
  Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:hive://localhost:10000/default", "", "");
  DatabaseMetaData data = conn.getMetaData();
  System.out.println(data.toString());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I am getting following Exception:  </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
    org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/api/MetaException    at
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver.connect(HiveDriver.java:104)
      at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)     at
    java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185)  at
    my.work.DataSourceConnectionCheck.checkHiveConnection(DataSourceConnectionCheck.java:23)
      at
    my.work.DataSourceConnectionCheck.main(DataSourceConnectionCheck.java:67)
    Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
    org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.MetaException    at
    java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)    at
    java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)    at
    java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)    at
    java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)     at
    sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)     at
    java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)     ... 5 more</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Can any one please let me know which jar I missed?  </p>