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
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> [1] https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-imaging/dependencies.html
>> 
> 
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Tim Mann
> 

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