JUNG Exception in "main" :org/apache/commons/collections/Predicate

Question

I am getting started with Java Universal Network/Graph Framework (JUNG). I am trying to build a basic graph using the same. I downloaded the jung 2.0.1 libraries. collections-generic-4.0.1.jar and colt-1.2.0.jar. I added all the included libraries to my eclipse project build path. But I am getting the following exception whenever i am trying to run...

package grapheditor;


import edu.uci.ics.jung.graph.Graph;
import edu.uci.ics.jung.graph.SparseMultigraph;
import edu.uci.ics.jung.graph.util.EdgeType;

/**
 * The simplest JUNG2 graph creation example possible?
 * Shows how easy the new JUNG2 graph interface and implementation class is
 * to use.
 * @author Dr. Greg M. Bernstein
 */
public class SimplestGraph {        
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Graph<V, E> where V is the type of the vertices and E is the type of the edges
        SparseMultigraph<Integer, String> g = new SparseMultigraph<Integer, String>();
        // Add some vertices. From above we defined these to be type Integer.
        g.addVertex((Integer)1);
        g.addVertex((Integer)2);
        g.addVertex((Integer)3); 
        // Add some edges. From above we defined these to be of type String
        // Note that the default is for undirected edges.
        g.addEdge("Edge-A", 1, 2); // Note that Java 1.5 auto-boxes primitives
        g.addEdge("Edge-B", 2, 3);       
        // Let's see what we have. Note the nice output from the SparseMultigraph<V,E> toString() method
        System.out.println("The graph g = " + g.toString());
        // Note that we can use the same nodes and edges in two different graphs.
        SparseMultigraph<Integer, String> g2 = new SparseMultigraph<Integer, String>();
        g2.addVertex((Integer)1);
        g2.addVertex((Integer)2);
        g2.addVertex((Integer)3); 
        g2.addEdge("Edge-A", 1,3);
        g2.addEdge("Edge-B", 2,3, EdgeType.DIRECTED);
        g2.addEdge("Edge-C", 3, 2, EdgeType.DIRECTED);
        g2.addEdge("Edge-P", 2,3); // A parallel edge
        System.out.println("The graph g2 = " + g2.toString());    
    }
}

i am getting the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/collections/Predicate
    at grapheditor.SimplestGraph.main(SimplestGraph.java:17)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.collections.Predicate
    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)
    ... 1 more

It made me thinking that the collections-generic-4.0.1.jar is causing it. So i extracted it and found that the package structure in it is org/apache/commons/collections15/Predicate instead of org/apache/commons/collections/Predicate. Is this causing the problem? Any help in this light will be appreciated...

Answer 1

Write this in your code to specify where you want the Predicate class from:

import org.apache.commons.collections15.Predicate

or if you may need some other classes inside the package:

import org.apache.commons.collections15.*

Also, you can extract the .jar file and create a new one with the correct path to your Predicate class.