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Missing class from package within Netbeans when using Spire.Doc.jar for docx files

I downloaded and installed the free Spire.Doc.jar file to work with .docx files. When I run it within Netbeans the functionality works fine however when I attempt to build the program I am getting the following error:
warning: Supported source version 'RELEASE_6' from annotation processor 'org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.modelgen.CanonicalModelProcessor' less than -source '1.8'
Note: Creating static metadata factory ...
error: com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure: class file for com.spire.doc.packages.spryOb$1
not found
An annotation processor threw an uncaught exception.
Consult the following stack trace for details.
java.lang.RuntimeException: com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure: class file for com.spire.doc.packages.spryOb$1 not found
I have added the .jar file to my class path however there appears to be a class file missing from the com.spire.packages location.
Does anyone know if this is a Netbeans issue or does it look like there is an issue with the .jar file? I find it strange that it works when I run it within Netbeans but the above error occurs when I attempt to build the project.

I managed to get my application to build. What I had to do was remove the following code from my class and then it worked:
document.getMailMerge().MergeImageField = new MergeImageFieldEventHandler()
{
#Override
public void invoke(Object sender, MergeImageFieldEventArgs args)
{
mailMerge_MergeImageField(sender, args);
}
};
private static void mailMerge_MergeImageField(Object sender, MergeImageFieldEventArgs field)
{
String filePath = field.getImageFileName();
if (filePath != null && !"".equals(filePath))
{
try
{
field.setImage(filePath);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
I'm not sure why it didn't work with this included however I got this code from the following website:
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/how-to-perform-mail-merge-in-word-document-in-java/
therefore I will inform them in case this happens to someone else in the future.

Externally executable application fails for some application?

I'm wanting to launch the program from a Java application, with some luck. Most programs are started without problems, but some seem to not execute properly(?).
The code I'm using is very simple:
private static void exec() {
ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder("C:\\Users\\Fillipuster\\AppData\\Local\\Discord\\Update.exe");
try {
builder.start();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
...and works for almost all executables (*.exe). Discord is purposefully placed in the example, as it is one of the programs that cause this problem. (along with Messenger For Windows and GOG Galaxy).
The behavior is simple, and the same for all executable that causes this; a command prompt quickly pops into existence and then promptly disappears (pun intended) - resulting in the application not being launched.
Sifting through Google and Stack Overflow proved a futile effort, and at this point, I'm at a complete loss.
Any help/input is much appreciated.

Thanks to John, who pointed out that even launching the the Update.exe file "manually" results in the same behavior, I've found the problem.
It seems that when launching Discord successfully, one is actually launching a shortcut that gives a parameter to the executable. In this case:
--processStart Discord.exe
This means that the following code will in fact start Discord:
private static void exec() {
ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder("C:\\Users\\Fillipuster\\AppData\\Local\\Discord\\Update.exe", "--processStart", "Discord.exe");
try {
builder.start();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Thanks to John and all the other commenters.

Getting an UnsatisfiedLinkError (undefined symbol) in Java while loading JNI dependencies even after successfully loading the required object file

I'm using Google OR-tools library (v6.4) for a project (though my question is not specific to this library). This consists of one jar, which has a few native dependencies (a bunch of ".so"/".dylib" object files, depending on the OS). This build for my project is being made on Ubuntu 14.04
The problem I'm facing: On trying to load a specific object file at runtime (using System.load()), I'm getting an UnsatisfiedLinkError with the message as "undefined symbol" (I've added the stacktrace below). However, I am loading the object file defining this symbol just before this, so I'm not sure why this error is being thrown.
I'm loading the dependencies in the following way: The object files are being packed into the jar created by Maven during build, and are being extracted and loaded (using System.load()) at runtime. The method for that is as follows:
public class EnvironmentUtils {
public static void loadResourceFromJar(String prefix, String suffix) {
String tempFilesDirectory = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
File tempFile = null;
try {
tempFile = new File(tempFilesDirectory + "/" + prefix + suffix);
tempFile.deleteOnExit();
try (final InputStream inputStream = EnvironmentUtils.class.getClassLoader().
getResourceAsStream(prefix+suffix)) {
if (inputStream == null) {
throw new RuntimeException(prefix + suffix + " was not found inside JAR.");
} else {
Files.copy(inputStream, tempFile.toPath(), StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
}
}
System.load(tempFile.getAbsolutePath());
} catch (Exception e) {
//Log top 10 lines of stack trace
}
}
}
This method is being called inside a static block for all dependencies:
public class DummyClass {
static {
String sharedLibraryExtension = EnvironmentUtils.getSharedLibraryExtension(); //.so for linux, .dylib for Mac
String jniLibraryExtension = EnvironmentUtils.getJniLibraryExtension(); //.so for linux, .jnilib for Mac
EnvironmentUtils.loadResourceFromJar("libfap", sharedLibraryExtension);
EnvironmentUtils.loadResourceFromJar("libcvrptw_lib", sharedLibraryExtension);
EnvironmentUtils.loadResourceFromJar("libortools", sharedLibraryExtension);
EnvironmentUtils.loadResourceFromJar("libdimacs", sharedLibraryExtension);
EnvironmentUtils.loadResourceFromJar("libjniortools", jniLibraryExtension);
}
}
On running System.load() for libdimacs.so, an UnsatisfiedLinkError is thrown. Stacktrace:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/libdimacs.so: /tmp/libdimacs.so: undefined symbol: _ZN6google14FlagRegistererC1IbEEPKcS3_S3_PT_S5_
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1941)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1824)
at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:809)
at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1086)
at com.(PROJECT_NAME).utils.EnvironmentUtils.loadResourceFromJar(EnvironmentUtils.java:78)
at com.(PROJECT_NAME).DummyClass.<clinit>(DummyClass.java:28)
However, this symbol "_ZN6google14FlagRegistererC1IbEEPKcS3_S3_PT_S5_" is present in libortools.so, which is being loaded before libdimacs. I verified this by running the following command:
objdump -t (LIBRARY_PATH)/libortools.so | grep _ZN6google14FlagRegistererC1IbEEPKcS3_S3_PT_S5_
This gave me the following output:
0000000000ce12cc gw F .text 00000091 _ZN6google14FlagRegistererC1IbEEPKcS3_S3_PT_S5_
So it would seem that the symbol should have been defined at the time of the System.load() call, unless there was some issue in loading the containing object file. To check if the object file had been loaded correctly, I used the approach detailed in this solution. Apart from the class detailed in that answer, I added the following lines after System.load() call in EnvironmentUtils.loadResourceFromJar() to print the most recently loaded library name:
public class EnvironmentUtils {
public static void loadResourceFromJar(String prefix, String suffix) {
...
System.load(tempFile.getAbsolutePath());
final String[] libraries = ClassScope.getLoadedLibraries(ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader());
System.out.println(libraries[libraries.length - 1]);
}
}
The output (till just before the UnsatisfiedLinkError) is as follows:
/tmp/libfap.so
/tmp/libcvrptw_lib.so
/tmp/libortools.so
So libortools.so seems to be loading correctly, which means the symbol should be loaded in memory. The exact same code is working perfectly with the corresponding Mac (".dylib") dependencies (Built on MacOS Sierra 10.12.5). Would appreciate any advice on resolving this. Thank you.

I'm apologize that the java artifact may be broken currently...
you can use c++filt to demangle the symbol ;)
c++filt _ZN6google14FlagRegistererC1IbEEPKcS3_S3_PT_S5_
google::FlagRegisterer::FlagRegisterer<bool>(char const*, char const*, char const*, bool*, bool*)
In fact gflag has recently change its namespace from google:: to gflags:: and glog or protobobuf? try to find the correct one and I guess it failed...
note: Still not completely sure whose is the bad guy who use the google:: namespace since libortools merge all its static dependencies but I guess now you understand the bug...
note2: I have a patch in mizux/shared branch https://github.com/google/or-tools/commit/805bc0600f4b5645114da704a0eb04a0b1058e28#diff-e8590fe6fb5044985c8bf8c9e73c0d88R114
warning: this branch is currently broken and not ready yet. I'm trying ,for unix, to move from static to dynamic dependencies, so I need to fix all rpath, transitives deps etc... and in the process I also had to fix this issue (that I didn't reproduced while using static dependencies)
If too long to finish (we should create a release 6.7.2 or 6.8 (i.e. new artifact) by the end of May 2018) which maybe only contains this fix and not my branch...

Build jar with tess4j

I create project in Intellij Idea, add tess4j 2.0 from maven, write test application. When I start debug all works fine. When I click "build artifacts" and launch jar file I haven't any result, no errors, nothing.
public class MainApp {
static String fileName = "C:\\Users\\Alex\\Google Drive\\TW\\LIB\\Tess4J\\eurotext.png";
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
System.setOut(new PrintStream(new File("output-file.txt")));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Start");
ITesseract instance = new Tesseract1(); // JNA Direct Mapping
try {
String result = instance.doOCR(new File(fileName));
System.out.println(result);
} catch (TesseractException e) {
System.out.println("Error");
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("End");
}
}
Output when debug
Start
The (quick) [brown] {fox} jumps!
Over the $43,456.78 #90 dog
& duck/goose, as 12.5% of E-mail.........
End
Output when launch jar
Start
No "Error", no "End". How it's possible?

I had the same issue. Sometimes it doesn't load classes correctly for some reason. here's how i was able to get it fixed for some far.
Build your artifact and then Remote debug your jar with intellij.
Find out in which line your application breaks.
Then wrap it with try{... line where application breaks..} catch(Error e){e.getMessage(); }
You can see the error message in variable "e" in debug output. So you can determine the issue.
May be this is not an appropriate way to do it. But this is how i was able to track down the errors in my jar file.
How ever it is best to use this as a temporary way to track the errors in your jar and to find out why it breaks and then find out correct way (Which is i'm not currently aware about.. but however got to heard about some library called One-Jar) to build jar without getting any errors on deployment.

Couldn't run bat file through Java code

Problem is that the same code below is working on other machine with Windows 7. I also use Windows 7, and bat file works well. But if I try to run this bat from code written before, cmd window just blink once and disappear.
s = path + "makeInfomap.bat";
try {
p = run.exec(s);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
e.printStackTrace();
}
final int exitVal = p.waitFor();

Run don't walk to this link: When Runtime.exec() won't.
It will tell you how to gobble output and error streams and will tell you how to call the OS's command interpreter when doing similar programs (although it is a little out of date).

My guess is that java is calling it fine but that the batch file itself is running in to trouble.
Try adding a 'pause' as the last line of your batch file and see if the batch file's console gives you any usable information.