Dear Sir/Madam, My company has planned to upgrade the IText to 7.0.1. However, the current jasper report program got an exception when we use itext7 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.itextpdf.text.SplitCharacter at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verifyImpl(Native Method) at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verify(J9VMInternals.java:85) at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:162) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperExportManager.exportToPdfFile(JasperExportManager.java:151) at net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfFile(JasperExportManager.java:504) I found Itext5 and Itext7 is quite different Do jasperreport have any plan to support IText7? (Whatever in a non-continued supported version ; such as 6.0.3) Regards, Billy For your information: currently, we use Jasperreport 6.0.3 with IText 5.5.9