jp@gc-JSON Path assertion is failing in Jmeter-3. Same is working fine in Jmeter-2.13. Following is complete error trace
Thread started: setUp Thread Group 1-1
2016/07/17 21:46:43 INFO - jmeter.services.FileServer: Stored: E:\jmeter3\JmxFiles\JbpmTables.csv
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Thread is done: setUp Thread Group 1-1
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Thread finished: setUp Thread Group 1-1
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: All Setup Threads have ended
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Starting ThreadGroup: 1 : Loan ProcessGroups
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Starting 1 threads for group Loan ProcessGroups.
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: Thread will continue on error
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.threads.ThreadGroup: Starting thread group number 1 threads 1 ramp-up 1 perThread 1000.0 delayedStart=false
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.threads.ThreadGroup: Started thread group number 1
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.engine.StandardJMeterEngine: All thread groups have been started
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Thread started: Loan ProcessGroups 1-1
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.services.FileServer: Stored: E:\Jmeter\LoanProcessGroups.csv
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHCAbstractImpl: Local host = 478T5Z1
2016/07/17 21:46:49 INFO - jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl: HTTP request retry count = 0
2016/07/17 21:46:50 ERROR - jmeter.threads.JMeterThread: Error processing Assertion java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/JsonReader
at com.atlantbh.jmeter.plugins.jsonutils.jsonpathassertion.JSONPathAssertion.doAssert(JSONPathAssertion.java:80)
at com.atlantbh.jmeter.plugins.jsonutils.jsonpathassertion.JSONPathAssertion.getResult(JSONPathAssertion.java:132)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.processAssertion(JMeterThread.java:755)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.checkAssertions(JMeterThread.java:746)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.executeSamplePackage(JMeterThread.java:490)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.processSampler(JMeterThread.java:410)
at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:241)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)