Hi, First of all, thanks again for your input on the matter! The strange thing is that the problem stopped to occur the next business day, with no changes applied to the system, but a windows restart. The classpath is correct, and the application is running as a GUI app. The error started to occur suddenly on hundreds of computers, then dissapeared the next day :| So, untill a root cause if found or i can replicate the issue on testing env, i'm expecting it back with the same randomness.. And it has a really big impact in our business... P.S: i can gain acces to the production computers and obtain any neccesary data.. as far as i know, until now, is that there were some windows updates targeted for installation in that period of time. Thanks!