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

I've faced the same issue on my development machine. Basically it was happened due to problem in application server (Apache tomcat)

Basically I've accidentally deleted the "temp" folder in server root. So jasper cant compile the report and proceed with the report generation.