Play / Azure -- NoClassDefFoundError on play.api.Configuration

[Scott Shipp]

Hey I don't know if anyone uses Azure but I am having a bit of an issue running Play on it. I mostly followed the directions at http://blog.throput.com/post/140682310245/deploy-play-scala-apps-with-azure-web-app and I think I'm most of the way there. But what I'm getting now is a NoClassDefFoundError when the app tries to spin up:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: play/api/Configuration

at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)

at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701)

at java.lang.Class.privateGetMethodRecursive(Class.java:3048)

at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:3018)

at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1784)

at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.validateMainClass(LauncherHelper.java:544)

at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:526)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: play.api.Configuration

at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)

at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)

... 7 more

Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again

Exception in thread "main" 

Anyone have any ideas? The app classpath seems to be right and working (points to \lib directory inside the distribution). 

Thanks