Previous working project cannot be compiled on 1.8

[tan9]

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.alexnederlof:jasperreports-plugin:1.8:jasper (compile-jasperreports-reports) on project xyz-webapp: Error while compiling Jasper reports: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class net.sf.jasperreports.web.util.WebResourceHandlersExtensionRegistryFactory -> [Help 1]

Change plugin version from 1.8 to 1.7, and everything works fine again.

[lucarota]

Hi,

This could be a bug in jasperreport 5.5.1 (see http://community.jaspersoft.com/jasperreports-library/issues/3301-0).
Could you try to add javax.servlet as dependency? Something like this:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.alexnederlof</groupId>
                <artifactId>jasperreports-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.8</version>
                            <configuration>
                            </configuration>
                            <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
                        <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
                        <version>3.0.1</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>

Cheers,
Luca

[tan9]

I can confirm this workaround works for me.

[alexnederlof]

I can't reproduce the error. Can either of you open a PR with the fix? If its confirmed, I'm happy to make a new release for you guys. Adding the dependency in the plug-in should be no problem.

[alexnederlof]

I'll make a new release myself. I trust you've tested it.

[alexnederlof]

Released as 1.9

[tan9]

Thank you, Alex!

I can confirm that 1.9 work like a charm in my project!