Just to double check, have you transferred over all of your configs/JARs over to Runtime -- especially the JAR file that holds your custom Java External class?
Full stack will help, unfortunately in Java chained exceptions contain the important information at the bottom of the stack trace.
That looks like the component ID is zero. Can you please post the AJAX link generated that you click on (or call) (it is the one ending in .ajax).What version of LiveSite are you on?