Could not initialize class net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRStyledTextParser

Question

I\'m trying to display my reports on the browser , but I keep getting this error:

Answer 1

This is a missing jars in the class path issue.

I had this issue and found that with by adding the missing jars to the class path it resolved the issue.

From the below article java.dzone.com article I found that the minimal jars necessary are...Now The versions numbers have changed but with these libraries only I managed to get it working.

• jasperreports-2.0.4.jar
• commons-digester-1.7.jar
• commons-collections-2.1.jar (commons-collections.jar)
• commons-logging-1.0.2.jar
• commons-beanutils.jar
• iText-2.0.7.jar (used infor PDF exporting)