[PDFBOX-5241] Calling constructor of PDFTextStripper throws java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.24
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Labels: jdk16
• Environment: Windows 10 (amd64) ; Java-Version: 16.0.1 (Amazon Corretto)
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andreas
• Created: 21/Jul/21 07:24
• Updated: 23/Jul/21 06:12
• Resolved: 23/Jul/21 06:12

Description

Using 2.0.24

<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
<artifactId>pdfbox</artifactId>
<version>2.0.24</version>
</dependency>

On some of our customer's devices simply instantiating PDFTextStripper causes the JVM to crash

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.encoding.GlyphListjava.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.encoding.GlyphList at org.apache.pdfbox.text.LegacyPDFStreamEngine.<init>(LegacyPDFStreamEngine.java:120) at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.<init>(PDFTextStripper.java:214)

 

When running Java 11 this problem was not reported at all, so I guess this is a Java 16 issue.

If there is anything else I can provide please let me know

Thank you

 

EDIT: We cannot reproduce this issue on all machines, it seems to appear randomly