JasperReports NoClassDefFoundError exception on net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRStyledTextParser

This was due to a missing font. I was able to resolve this by installing fontconfig and urw-fonts packages.

yum install fontconfig
yum install urw-fonts

After that you can check supported fonts using command

fc-list

If the reports are still not generated you may need to reboot the server.

Faced this issue multiple times and I have got the solution. This error comes due to lack of memory space on disk... You can try below things to solve : (i) Make enough space in tmp folder (ii) Delete some unnecessary files on the disk to make some space.

Good luck..Hope.. it should solve your issue

Once you have this problem, googling will bring you here. For me the problem was Jdk 11.2.

Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
        at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:490)
        at java.desktop/sun.font.FontManagerFactory$1.run(FontManagerFactory.java:84)
        ... 85 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.FontConfiguration.getVersion(FontConfiguration.java:1262)
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.FontConfiguration.readFontConfigFile(FontConfiguration.java:225)
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.FontConfiguration.init(FontConfiguration.java:107)
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.X11FontManager.createFontConfiguration(X11FontManager.java:719)
        at java.desktop/sun.font.SunFontManager$2.run(SunFontManager.java:367)
        at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.desktop/sun.font.SunFontManager.<init>(SunFontManager.java:312)
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.FcFontManager.<init>(FcFontManager.java:35)
        at java.desktop/sun.awt.X11FontManager.<init>(X11FontManager.java:56)
        ... 90 more
java.lang.InternalError: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at java.desktop/sun.font.FontManagerFactory$1.run(FontManagerFactory.java:86)
        at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.desktop/sun.font.FontManagerFactory.getInstance(FontManagerFactory.java:74)
        at java.desktop/sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.getFontManagerForSGE(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:189)
        at java.desktop/sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:223)
        at java.desktop/sun.java2d.SunGraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames(SunGraphicsEnvironment.java:251)
        at java.desktop/sun.java2d.HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames(HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.java:75)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRStyledTextParser.<clinit>(JRStyledTextParser.java:94)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.<init>(JRBaseFiller.java:110)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.<init>(JRVerticalFiller.java:69)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.<init>(JRVerticalFiller.java:57)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.createBandReportFiller(JRFiller.java:200)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.createReportFiller(JRFiller.java:215)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.fill(JRFiller.java:115)
        at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fill(JasperFillManager.java:667)

Solutions tried

• Ran locally with JDK 11.02. No problems. Because the problems happens on linux 64 systems
• Ran on server -Djava-awt.headeless=true as suggested by some users . Problem still remains.

Reason this problem occurs is because support of certain fonts have been removed

From Oracle release notes https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/11-relnote-issues-5012449.html#Removed

Removal of Lucida Fonts from Oracle JDK Oracle JDK no longer ships any fonts and relies entirely on fonts installed on the operating system.

This means that fonts in the Bigelow & Holmes Lucida family (Lucida Sans, Lucida Bright, and Lucida Typewriter) are no longer available to applications from the JDK.

If applications rely on fonts shipped in the JDK, they may need to be updated.

If system adminstrators are running Java server applications that rely on fonts shipped in the JDK rather than on system font packages, then the applications may fail to run until the system font packages are installed.

Go back to previous version of JDK or you can try upgrading Jasper.

for my case, jasperreports 6.8.0, worked the change of project dependency xml-apis from version

    <dependency>
            <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
            <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.2</version>
    </dependency>

to

    <dependency>
            <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
            <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.01</version>
    </dependency>

as proposed in jaspersoft community forum https://community.jaspersoft.com/questions/825173/could-not-initialize-class-netsfjasperreportsengineutiljrstyledtextparser

I had to install the xfce4 font package in my alpine linux. In fact, I'm using docker. So, I put the following command in the dockerfile:

RUN apk add xfce4

Worked fine for me just installing the fontconfig library on the so.

apt install fontconfig