轉自：http://www.codeorg.cn/article/detail/qa/542
在進行activiti環境搭建時總是拋出java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.joda.time.ReadablePeriod錯誤信息，仔細觀察該錯誤信息是NoClassDefFoundError（類沒有找到錯誤），說明是缺少必要的jar文件。
錯誤信息：
2015-1-31 21:31:06 org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions
信息: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [activiti.cfg.xml]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/joda/time/ReadablePeriod
at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl.initBusinessCalendarManager(ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl.java:1078)
at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl.init(ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl.java:376)
at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl.buildProcessEngine(ProcessEngineConfigurationImpl.java:362)
at com.bug315.ActivitiTest01.main(ActivitiTest01.java:11)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.joda.time.ReadablePeriod
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
... 4 more
解決辦法：
將joda-time-2.7-no-tzdb.jar、joda-time-2.7.jar導入到項目的classpath下面即可解決（jar文件你可以到網上下載）。