Regarding External Dependencies

[sakethchandra02]

Hi, I want to import following things on my servlet. Can anyone let me know what is the process to add external dependencies and also what external dependencies are needed?

import org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer;

import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont;

[aanchal-sikka]

Hello @sakethchandra02 

Dependencies would be 

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.xhtmlrenderer/flying-saucer-pdf-itext5 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.xhtmlrenderer</groupId>
<artifactId>flying-saucer-pdf-itext5</artifactId>
<version>9.0.1</version>
</dependency>

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.lowagie/itext -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>2.1.7</version>
</dependency>

To use these dependencies, you can add the bundles in parent's pom.xml and all modules's pom.xml, like described on https://techrevel.blog/2023/09/27/managing-third-party-dependencies-in-aem/. Just refer to following:

[sakethchandra02]

Thanks a lot for the response. My core bundle is now stuck in installed state with the following error

I have added them as dependencies in core pom as well (As I was getting an error while build). Now the build is successful but core isn't getting active. Can you please let me know if there is anything missing here?

[aanchal-sikka]

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.xhtmlrenderer/flying-saucer-core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.xhtmlrenderer</groupId>
<artifactId>flying-saucer-core</artifactId>
<version>9.3.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.xhtmlrenderer</groupId>
<artifactId>flying-saucer-pdf-itext5</artifactId>
<version>9.3.1</version>
</dependency>

Updated version of earlier dependency

[sakethchandra02]

Thanks again for taking time but I can see the same error.

[aanchal-sikka]

@sakethchandra02 

Each of the dependencies have their pom.xml in maven. Like:

Maven Repository: org.xhtmlrenderer » flying-saucer-pdf-itext5 » 9.3.1 (mvnrepository.com)

repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/lowagie/itext/4.2.2/itext-4.2.2.pom

requesting you to please check their dependencies in pom.xml and import the ones needed. It should help resolve the issue

[arunpatidar]

Hi @sakethchandra02 
Please check if the external dependencies are are resolved or not in AEM.

It might be possible that the dependencies are the jar but not the osgi bundles.

[kautuk_sahni]

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