Hi, started using org.apache.poi.xwpf version 3.16 (defined as dependency in projects pom.xml). When I test my application in my IDE (idea) it works like a charm, but when I try to run the compiled jar from commandline using
$ java -jar target/dokpool-faq-importer.jar ./test/FAQs.docx I get the following error message: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFDocument at de.bfs.dokpool.faq.importer.FaqImporter.main(FaqImporter.java:23) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:338) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 1 more The as far as I know relevant dependency packages seem to be included in the jar-file. Tried with unzip -l: $ unzip -l target/dokpool-faq-importer.jar Archive: target/dokpool-faq-importer.jar Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 411 2018-02-09 22:18 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF 0 2018-02-09 22:18 META-INF/ 0 2018-02-09 22:18 de/ 0 2018-02-09 22:18 de/bfs/ 0 2018-02-09 22:18 de/bfs/dokpool/ 0 2018-02-09 22:18 de/bfs/dokpool/faq/ 0 2018-02-09 22:18 de/bfs/dokpool/faq/importer/ 0 2018-02-09 22:18 lib/ 0 2018-02-09 22:18 META-INF/maven/ 0 2018-02-09 22:18 META-INF/maven/de.bfs/ 0 2018-02-09 22:18 META-INF/maven/de.bfs/dokpool-faq-importer/ 1227 2018-02-09 22:18 de/bfs/dokpool/faq/importer/FaqSchluesselBotschaft.class 1183 2018-02-09 22:18 de/bfs/dokpool/faq/importer/FaqBotschaften.class 190432 2018-02-09 22:18 lib/gson-2.2.4.jar 751238 2018-02-09 22:18 lib/commons-collections4-4.1.jar 26514 2018-02-09 22:18 lib/stax-api-1.0.1.jar 1433719 2018-02-09 22:18 lib/poi-ooxml-3.16.jar 4824 2018-02-09 22:17 META-INF/maven/de.bfs/dokpool-faq-importer/pom.xml 99 2018-02-09 22:18 META-INF/maven/de.bfs/dokpool-faq-importer/pom.properties 2919 2018-02-09 22:18 de/bfs/dokpool/faq/importer/FaqImporter.class 2224 2018-02-09 22:18 de/bfs/dokpool/faq/importer/Faq.class 2730866 2018-02-09 22:18 lib/xmlbeans-2.6.0.jar 4946 2018-02-09 22:18 de/bfs/dokpool/faq/importer/FaqUtils.class 5871746 2018-02-09 22:18 lib/poi-ooxml-schemas-3.16.jar 3124 2018-02-09 22:18 de/bfs/dokpool/faq/importer/FaqTableParser.class 284184 2018-02-09 22:18 lib/commons-codec-1.10.jar 98365 2018-02-09 22:18 lib/curvesapi-1.04.jar 2679259 2018-02-09 22:18 lib/poi-3.16.jar --------- ------- 14087280 28 files What can be the reason? Any idea why org/apache/poi/xwpf/usermodel/XWPFDocument is not found? My FaqImporter.java main() looks like this: package de.bfs.dokpool.faq.importer; ... import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFDocument; import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.XWPFTable; import org.apache.poi.openxml4j.opc.OPCPackage; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.List; public class FaqImporter { public static void main(String[] args) { String docxpath = args[0]; List<Faq> faqCatalog = new ArrayList<Faq>(); try { FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(docxpath); XWPFDocument xdoc = new XWPFDocument(OPCPackage.open(fis)); List<XWPFTable> xwpfTables = xdoc.getTables(); ... Shouldn't this be enough? Javav ersion is $ java -version java version "1.8.0_161" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_161-b12) Marco