Question

I have a Java Maven project that I developed a while ago and that doesn’t work anymore. It uses a parent pom together with another Maven project in which I think the Jena version was changed and it also uses an external library that uses Jena. The Maven dependency is:

<dependency>
 <groupId>com.hp.hpl.jena</groupId>
 <artifactId>jena</artifactId>
 <version>2.6.4</version>
</dependency>

When I execute my tests I get the following errors:

• java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class
  com.hp.hpl.jena.query.ARQ
• java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/jena/iri/IRIFactory
  at org.openjena.riot.system.PrefixMap.add(PrefixMap.java:54)
  at com.hp.hpl.jena.sparql.util.MappingRegistry.addPrefixMapping(MappingRegistry.java:33)
  at com.hp.hpl.jena.query.ARQ.init(ARQ.java:449) […]

The errors are not thrown by my code directly but by the library I include. Can I prevent this by downgrading the Jena version in the parent pom or what can I do here?

P.S.: I now have a minimal code example that reproduces the error (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/jena/iri/IRIFactory):

import org.junit.Test;
import com.hp.hpl.jena.query.ARQ;

public class DependencyTest
{
    @Test
    public void testARQ()
    {
        ARQ a = new ARQ();      
    }   
}

And I guess it comes from this dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
  <artifactId>jena-arq</artifactId>
  <version>2.9.1-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

I know there is probably a factory instead of a constructor but I guess this still shows where the problem is.

P.S.: I noticed that I had the dependencies “jena”, “arq” and “jena-arq”:

<dependency>
 <groupId>com.hp.hpl.jena</groupId>
 <artifactId>arq</artifactId>
 <version>2.8.8</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
 <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
 <artifactId>jena-arq</artifactId>
 <version>2.9.1-incubating-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

 dependency>
 <groupId>com.hp.hpl.jena</groupId>
 <artifactId>jena</artifactId>
 <version>2.6.4</version>
</dependency>

So I thought maybe I have too much overlapping dependencies and commented out “jena” and “arq”. But I still get the error

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.hp.hpl.jena.query.ARQ
    at com.hp.hpl.jena.sparql.engine.http.QueryEngineHTTP.<init> [...]

I also tried out forcing a non-snapshot-version 2.9.0-incubating, but then I still get the NoClassDefFoundError with and without using the “jena” and “arq”-dependencies.

P.P.S.:

I still get the same error even when I use the following dependencies:

 <dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
  <artifactId>jena-arq</artifactId>
 <version>2.9.0-incubating</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
  <artifactId>jena-core</artifactId>
 <version>2.7.0-incubating</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
  <artifactId>jena-iri</artifactId>
 <version>2.7.0-incubating</version>
</dependency>

Answer 1

I finally resolved this error by excluding the “jena”-Dependency brought in as a transitive dependency from some library.