Java – Marvin: “NoClassDefFoundError: com/jogamp/newt/event/KeyListener”

Marvin: “NoClassDefFoundError: com/jogamp/newt/event/KeyListener”… here is a solution to the problem.

Marvin: “NoClassDefFoundError: com/jogamp/newt/event/KeyListener”

I’m trying to use external jar JOGL and GlueGen in my Maven project. The build process works, but when I execute the jar I get this error message:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/jogamp/newt/event/KeyListener
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at com.jaamsim.ui.GUIFrame.main(GUIFrame.java:1995)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.jogamp.newt.event.KeyListener
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        ... 13 more

Here is my pom .xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>JaamSim</groupId>
    <artifactId>JaamSim</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

<properties>
        <nd4j.version>1.0.0-beta2</nd4j.version>
        <dl4j.version>1.0.0-beta2</dl4j.version>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>

<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <!-- Build an executable JAR -->
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <archive>
                        <manifest>
                            <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                            <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
                            <mainClass>com.jaamsim.ui.GUIFrame</mainClass>
                        </manifest>
                    </archive>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

<dependencies>

<!-- JOGL & Gluegen -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jogamp.gluegen</groupId>
            <artifactId>gluegen-rt</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jogamp.jogl</groupId>
            <artifactId>jogl-all-main</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.2</version>
        </dependency>

</dependencies>
</project>

I also tried building jars with shaded plugins and installing JOGL and GlueGen in a local repository, with the same result.

Thanks a lot for helping with this!

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