How to Handle Jasper Report’s CompilationFailedException
I always use JasperReport for my java projects, but sometimes i found some weird java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/groovy/control/CompilationFailedException when im trying to get reports from jasper files. This is my full stack trace exception.
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/groovy/control/CompilationFailedException
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2389)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2699)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:326)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager.getCompiler(JasperCompileManager.java:472)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperCompileManager.loadEvaluator(JasperCompileManager.java:238)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFillDataset.createCalculator(JRFillDataset.java:416)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRBaseFiller.<init>(JRBaseFiller.java:408)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.<init>(JRVerticalFiller.java:74)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRVerticalFiller.<init>(JRVerticalFiller.java:56)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.createFiller(JRFiller.java:143)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRFiller.fillReport(JRFiller.java:79)
at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fillReport(JasperFillManager.java:624)
Actually it happens because im still using Groovy as my report language, instead of Java. All i have to do is change reporting language to java, as you can see below.
Or adding groovy*.jar to your project’s classpath.
Have fun, cheers. 
17 Comments
nis
about 9 years agoThank you. It really helped me to solve the problem.
Replyedwin
about 9 years agoanytime nis, glad it can help :)
warrior
about 9 years agothx,it really helped
Replyedwin
about 9 years agohi Warrior, glad it could helped you.
Manuel gregorio Isaza Monterrosa
about 9 years agomuchas gracias por ese aporte, estaba desesperado y ya lo pude corregir.....
Replyedwin
about 9 years agoeres amigo de bienvenida,
Mangesh
about 8 years agogr8, it really helped
Replyedwin
about 8 years agoHi Mangesh, glad it can help :)
Walter Giraldo Mejia
about 8 years agoGracias Me ayudo tremendamente, realmente gracias.... te pasaste...! :)
Replyedwin
about 8 years agoHi Walter, glad it can help :)
Moro
about 7 years agoWorks!!! thanks a lot :-)
Replyedwin
about 7 years agoHi Moro, glad it can help
Reedyseth
about 7 years agoThanks this worked for me. Just switching to Java solve my problem. I also noticed that I can integrate it with Javascript, so I am happier because I am a Web Developer.
Replyedwin
about 7 years agowow cool, i never tought that jasper able to use javascript.
doank
about 6 years agothank you :-D (Y)
Replyawab
about 5 years agowhere can I find groovy*.jar
Replyedwin
about 5 years agoyou can find it on your jasper or ireport installation folder