program using reflection run as hadoop jar throws java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

I have a base and sub class. The requirement is to invoke sub class' method using reflection. Both programs are below.

base.java

import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLClassLoader;
public class base {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        URLClassLoader loader = null;
        Class<?> cls;

        try {
            File file = new File("sub.jar" );
            URL[] urls = { file.toURI().toURL() };
            loader = new URLClassLoader(urls);

            cls = loader.loadClass("sub");
            base obj =  (base) cls.newInstance();

            obj.print();

        }
        catch(Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Exception occured:" + e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public void print() {
        System.out.println("In Base class");
    }
}

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sub.java

public class sub extends base {

    public void print() {
        System.out.println("In subclass");
    }
}

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compile both in to jars.

javac base.java;
jar cvf base.jar base.class

javac sub.java;
jar cvf sub.jar sub.class

If I invoke the base.jar as "java -cp", it works fine

java -cp base.jar base 
output: "In subclass"

But if I invoke it with "hadoop jar" command, I get

hadoop jar base.jar base

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: base
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
        at base.main(base.java:15)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: base
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)

Any help is greatly appreciated.