Hello Bindul, I recommend you use Maven to manage your project. None of this would have been an issue with Maven...
Gary On Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 18:39 Tim Mann <harlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Bindul. Adding io & lang to the project path resolved the issue. > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM Bindul Bhowmik <bindulbhow...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Tim, > > > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM Tim Mann <harlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have downloaded and added the commons.imaging jar files to my project > > > library folder in Netbeans. I copied the source code from github for > > > src/test/java/org/apache/commons/imaging/examples/MetadataExample.java > > > > > > when I run the program I get an error message at the first code line: > > > final ImageMetadata metadata = Imaging.getMetadata(file); > > > > > > The error is Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" > > > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > > org/apache/commons/io/build/AbstractOrigin > > > > > > > Commons IO and Commons Lang are dependencies of Commons Imaging [1]. From > > the message above, it looks like your project is missing the commons-io > > jar. > > You mentioned downloading and adding commons imaging jar to your project > > library folder, so I would assume you are not using a build / dependency > > manager tool like Maven, Ivy or Gradle? If so, may I recommend using one > of > > those as they will automatically pull in transitive dependencies. > > > > > > > > > > I am an experienced java programmer but I have no experience with the > > > commons.imaging library. Any suggestions to help me resolve this issue > > is > > > greatly appreciated. > > > > > > I have attached a screenshot of the code & error message. > > > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > > > > Tim Mann > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > [1] https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-imaging/dependencies.html > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Tim Mann >
