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 10 years agoThank you. It really helped me to solve the problem.
Replyedwin
about 10 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 8 years agoWorks!!! thanks a lot :-)
Replyedwin
about 8 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