Re: error with initial use of commons.imaging

Gary, I resolved my issue with Bindul=E2=80=99s assistance=20


Tim Mann
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> On Aug 11, 2025, at 7:58=E2=80=AFPM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]>=
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> =EF=BB=BFHi Bindul,
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> Right! Sorry about that.
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> Gary
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>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 19:48 Bindul Bhowmik <[email protected]> wrot=
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>> Hello Gary,
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>> I=E2=80=99m not sure if you meant to address that comment to me. I was me=
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>> trying to help Tim here, and if you read my email, I suggested they use
>> maven or gradle or ivy.
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>> Bindul
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>> On Aug 11, 2025, at 17:19, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> =EF=BB=BFHello Bindul,
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>> I recommend you use Maven to manage your project. None of this would have=

>> been an issue with Maven...
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>> Gary
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>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 18:39 Tim Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Thank you Bindul.  Adding io & lang to the project path resolved the
>> issue.
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>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 3:56=E2=80=AFPM Bindul Bhowmik <bindulbhowmik@gm=
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>>>> Hi Tim,
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>>>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 2:33=E2=80=AFPM Tim Mann <[email protected]> w=
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>>>>> I have downloaded and added the commons.imaging jar files to my projec=
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>>>>> library folder in Netbeans.  I copied the source code from github for
>>>>> src/test/java/org/apache/commons/imaging/examples/MetadataExample.java=

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>>>>> when I run the program I get an error message at the first code line:
>>>>> final ImageMetadata metadata =3D Imaging.getMetadata(file);
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>>>>> The error is Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"
>>>>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>>>> org/apache/commons/io/build/AbstractOrigin
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>>>> 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 projec=
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>>>> library folder, so I would assume you are not using a build / dependenc=
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>>>> manager tool like Maven, Ivy or Gradle? If so, may I recommend using on=
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>>>> those as they will automatically pull in transitive dependencies.
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>>>>> I am an experienced java programmer but I have no experience with the
>>>>> commons.imaging library.  Any suggestions to help me resolve this issu=
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>>>>> I have attached a screenshot of the code & error message.
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>>>>> Tim Mann
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>>>> [1] https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-imaging/dependencies.html=

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>>> Tim Mann
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