Hi,
Now it worked fine :D

So, at the moment I end up using the 3.15-beta2 - the latest available in Maven 
Repository - removed the poi-ooxml-schemas and added ooxml-schemas-1.3.jar as 
recommend in the FAQ you sent and everything worked fine.

Thanks for all of your help Dominik.

> On 25 Aug 2016, at 10:51, Dominik Stadler <dominik.stad...@gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> That sounds like you still have some old jars in use in your project, can
> you check? You can also try to use the full schema-jar instead of the
> ooxml-schemas, see http://poi.apache.org/faq.html#faq-N10025 for details.
> 
> Dominik.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Guilherme Viteri <gvit...@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Thanks for testing and validating my code
>> 
>> As you said I downloaded the trunk version from svn (git svn clone
>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk poisvngit --revision HEAD),
>> then I built using ant jar. I added these jars into my project and then I
>> assume now I get the latest version. However it did not work.
>> 
>> Still getting
>> java.lang.ClassCastException: 
>> org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.values.XmlComplexContentImpl
>> cannot be cast to org.openxmlformats.schemas.drawingml.x2006.main.
>> CTPath2DQuadBezierTo
>>        at org.openxmlformats.schemas.drawingml.x2006.main.impl.
>> CTPath2DImpl.addNewQuadBezTo(Unknown Source)
>>        at org.apache.poi.xslf.usermodel.XSLFFreeformShape.setPath(
>> XSLFFreeformShape.java:85)
>>        at org.reactome.server.rd2pptx.poi.TestBoneShape.main(
>> TestBoneShape.java:22)
>>        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>>        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(
>> NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
>>        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(
>> DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>>        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
>>        at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(
>> AppMain.java:144)
>> 
>> 
>> I tried xmlbeans version 2.3.0 and version 2.6.0 also but I don't this is
>> the problem. I am also running Java 8 on OS X
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Dominik Stadler <domi... <>@gmx.at>
>> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Your sample code works with current POI trunk, maybe you can try with the
>> latest version or at least a recent nightly build to see if your problem is
>> actually fixed there already.
>> 
>> Dominik.
>> 
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Guilherme Viteri <gvit... <>@ebi.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Developers,
>> 
>> Is there anyone monitoring the stack overflow forum for #apache-poi ?
>> 
>> I have created a couple of post but I haven't gotten any replies recently
>> 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38971376/apache-poi-xslfconnectorshape
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38971376/apache-poi-xslfconnectorshape
>>> 
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38971376/apache-poi-xslfconnectorshape
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38971376/apache-poi-xslfconnectorshape
>>> 
>> 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39001499/apache-poi- <
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39001499/apache-poi->
>> xslfautoshape-shape-offset-property <http://stackoverflow.com/ <
>> http://stackoverflow.com/>
>> questions/39001499/apache-poi-xslfautoshape-shape-offset-property>
>> 
>> Besides that, I have one more issue when drawing XSLFFreeFormShape. I am
>> trying to draw a kind of bone shape, however I am getting an exception in
>> the low-level xml classes. I am adding the class.
>> 
>> public class TestBoneShape {
>> 
>>    public static void main(String[] args) {
>>        try {
>>            XMLSlideShow pptx = new XMLSlideShow();
>>            XSLFSheet slide = pptx.createSlide();
>> 
>>            XSLFFreeformShape freeformShape = slide.createFreeform();
>> 
>>            freeformShape.setPath(boneShape(300, 300, 200, 100, 20));
>>            freeformShape.setLineColor(Color.RED);
>>            freeformShape.setAnchor(new Rectangle2D.Double(300, 300, 500,
>> 200));
>> 
>>            FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("custom-
>> shape.pptx");
>>            pptx.write(out);
>>            out.close();
>> 
>>        } catch (Exception e) {
>>            e.printStackTrace();
>>        }
>>    }
>> 
>>    static Path2D.Double boneShape(double x,
>>                                double y,
>>                                double width,
>>                                double height,
>>                                double loopWidth) {
>> 
>>        Path2D.Double bone = new Path2D.Double();
>>        double right = x + width;
>>        double bottom = y + height;
>> 
>>        double xAux = x + loopWidth;
>>        double yAux = y + loopWidth / 2;
>>        bone.moveTo(xAux, yAux);
>>        xAux = right - loopWidth;
>>        bone.lineTo(xAux, yAux);
>>        yAux = y + height / 2;
>>        bone.quadTo(right, y, right, yAux);
>> 
>>        xAux = right - loopWidth;
>>        yAux = bottom - loopWidth / 2;
>>        bone.quadTo(right, bottom, xAux, yAux);
>> 
>>        xAux = x + loopWidth;
>>        bone.lineTo(xAux, yAux);
>>        yAux = y + height / 2;
>>        bone.quadTo(x, bottom, x, yAux);
>> 
>>        xAux = x + loopWidth;
>>        yAux = y + loopWidth / 2;
>>        bone.quadTo(x, y, xAux, yAux);
>> 
>>        bone.closePath();
>> 
>>        return bone;
>>    }
>> }
>> 
>> Thank you
>> Guilherme.

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