Hello Gary, I’m not sure if you meant to address that comment to me. I was merely trying to help Tim here, and if you read my email, I suggested they use maven or gradle or ivy.
Bindul On Aug 11, 2025, at 17:19, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org