Howdy -- I'm unable to initialize the PDDocument class in PDFBox 2.0.17, as it throws an ExceptionInInitializerError from inside ICC_Profile code on first reference.
I'm using AdoptOpenJDK 11.0.4, but also (to my great surprise!) reproduced the problem using OpenJDK 1.8.0_222-ga (albeit still using LCMS). To reproduce the issue, one can pull the code out of the org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.color.PDDeviceRGB initializer and run it externally, as done below: (import '[java.awt.color ColorSpace]) (let [cs (ColorSpace/getInstance ColorSpace/CS_sRGB), black (float-array [0 0 0 0])] (.toRGB cs black)) ...which yields: #error { :cause nil :via [{:type java.lang.NullPointerException :message nil :at [java.awt.color.ICC_Profile intFromBigEndian "ICC_Profile.java" 1782]}] :trace [[java.awt.color.ICC_Profile intFromBigEndian "ICC_Profile.java" 1782] [java.awt.color.ICC_Profile getNumComponents "ICC_Profile.java" 1474] [sun.java2d.cmm.lcms.LCMSTransform <init> "LCMSTransform.java" 98] [sun.java2d.cmm.lcms.LCMS createTransform "LCMS.java" 173] [java.awt.color.ICC_ColorSpace toRGB "ICC_ColorSpace.java" 178] [user$eval2013 invokeStatic "NO_SOURCE_FILE" 1] [user$eval2013 invoke "NO_SOURCE_FILE" 1] ...matching the relevant subset of the full stack trace, as seen below: user=> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument CompilerException java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError, compiling:(/tmp/form-init3209311122715787650.clj:1:1418) user=> *e #error { :cause nil :via [{:type clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException :message "java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError, compiling:(/tmp/form-init3209311122715787650.clj:1:1418)" :at [clojure.lang.Compiler analyze "Compiler.java" 6792]} {:type java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError :message nil :at [java.lang.Class forName0 "Class.java" -2]} {:type java.lang.NullPointerException :message nil :at [java.awt.color.ICC_Profile intFromBigEndian "ICC_Profile.java" 1782]}] :trace [[java.awt.color.ICC_Profile intFromBigEndian "ICC_Profile.java" 1782] [java.awt.color.ICC_Profile getNumComponents "ICC_Profile.java" 1474] [sun.java2d.cmm.lcms.LCMSTransform <init> "LCMSTransform.java" 98] [sun.java2d.cmm.lcms.LCMS createTransform "LCMS.java" 173] [java.awt.color.ICC_ColorSpace toRGB "ICC_ColorSpace.java" 178] [org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.color.PDDeviceRGB init "PDDeviceRGB.java" 68] [org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.color.PDDeviceRGB toRGBImage "PDDeviceRGB.java" 108] [org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument <clinit> "PDDocument.java" 107] [java.lang.Class forName0 "Class.java" -2] [java.lang.Class forName "Class.java" 348] ;; ...snipped below here; generic Clojure REPL trace. Any pointers?