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The basic problem is that ucar.unidata.io.RandomAccessFile is missing from netcdf-java.2.2.jar. It is, after all, alpha code. ;-)
My apologies, i have fixed this problem and a new release is at http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf-java/index.html