No such method exception Hadoop <init>

When I am running a Hadoop .jar file from the command prompt, it throws an exception saying no such method StockKey method.

StockKey is my custom class defined for my own type of key.

Here is the exception:

12/07/12 00:18:47 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id :   
attempt_201207082224_0007_m_000000_1, Status : FAILED

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: SecondarySort$StockKey.      
<init>()
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:115)
    at org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparator.newKey(WritableComparator.java:109)
    at org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparator.<init>(WritableComparator.java:95)
    at org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparator.get(WritableComparator.java:51)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf.getOutputKeyComparator(JobConf.java:795)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.<init>(MapTask.java:817)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:383)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:325)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:270)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
    at     
   org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1127)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:264)