JasperReports NoClassDefFoundError exception on net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRStyledTextParser

Question

When trying to export on WebLogic 11g, it throws NoClassDefFound exception. I checked the application WAR and jasperreports-3.7.4.jar is included in WEB-INF/lib folder. What

Answer 1

Once you have this problem, googling will bring you here. For me the problem was Jdk 11.2.

Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
        at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:490)
        at java.desktop/sun.font.FontManagerFactory$1.run(FontManagerFactory.java:84)
        ... 85 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.FontConfiguration.getVersion(FontConfiguration.java:1262)
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.FontConfiguration.readFontConfigFile(FontConfiguration.java:225)
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.FontConfiguration.init(FontConfiguration.java:107)
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.X11FontManager.createFontConfiguration(X11FontManager.java:719)
        at java.desktop/sun.font.SunFontManager$2.run(SunFontManager.java:367)
        at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.desktop/sun.font.SunFontManager.(SunFontManager.java:312)
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.FcFontManager.(FcFontManager.java:35)
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.X11FontManager.(X11FontManager.java:56)
        ... 90 more
java.lang.InternalError: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at java.desktop/sun.font.FontManagerFactory$1.run(FontManagerFactory.java:86)
        at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.desktop/sun.font.FontManagerFactory.getInstance(FontManagerFactory.java:74)
        at java.desktop/sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.getFontManagerForSGE(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:189)
        at java.desktop/sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:223)
        at java.desktop/sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:251)
        at java.desktop/sun.java2d.HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames(HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.java:75)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRStyledTextParser.(JRStyledTextParser.java:94)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.(JRBaseFiller.java:110)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.(JRVerticalFiller.java:69)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.(JRVerticalFiller.java:57)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.createBandReportFiller(JRFiller.java:200)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.createReportFiller(JRFiller.java:215)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.fill(JRFiller.java:115)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fill(JasperFillManager.java:667)

Solutions tried

• Ran locally with JDK 11.02. No problems. Because the problems happens on linux 64 systems
• Ran on server -Djava-awt.headeless=true as suggested by some users . Problem still remains.

Reason this problem occurs is because support of certain fonts have been removed

From Oracle release notes https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/11-relnote-issues-5012449.html#Removed

Removal of Lucida Fonts from Oracle JDK Oracle JDK no longer ships any fonts and relies entirely on fonts installed on the operating system.

This means that fonts in the Bigelow & Holmes Lucida family (Lucida Sans, Lucida Bright, and Lucida Typewriter) are no longer available to applications from the JDK.

If applications rely on fonts shipped in the JDK, they may need to be updated.

If system adminstrators are running Java server applications that rely on fonts shipped in the JDK rather than on system font packages, then the applications may fail to run until the system font packages are installed.

Go back to previous version of JDK or you can try upgrading Jasper.