Geotools cannot find HSQL EPSG DB, throws error: NoSuchAuthorityCodeException

Question

I am running Geotools inside of Apache Storm, and having a heck of a time with geotools dependency management. Every thing works when I run the storm cluster locally (window

Answer 1

I had this problem when using a Maven dependency (Matsim) which used geotools, while I was not using geotools in my project directly. I was building a 'fat' jar using the maven-shade-plugin .

The solution was simply to add a transformer to the shade plugin configuration (as cello mentions at the bottom of his answer).