Java – com4j wrapper Gen problem

I'm trying to use tlbimp-20110320 Jar generates a wrapper for com4j I also tried the same wrong 2008 version Even if I try to run the example in Tut, I will encounter the same error

C:\Users\matthew\Documents\NetBeansProjects\test>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jr
e7\bin\java.exe" -jar tlbimp-20110320.jar -o excel -p excel "C:\Program Files (x
86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE"
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/kohsuke/args4j/Cm
dLineException
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(UnkNown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.getmethod0(UnkNown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.getmethod(UnkNown Source)
    at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.getMainMethod(UnkNown Source)
    at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(UnkNown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.kohsuke.args4j.CmdLineException

    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)
    ... 6 more

After Iceman provides a link to the required library, I can make it run a little But I had to copy the arg4j content to Tlbimp jar and the com4j content to Tlbimp jar Now I see

C:\Users\matthew\Documents\NetBeansProjects\test>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jr
e7\bin\java.exe" -jar tlbimp-20110320.jar -o excel -p excel "C:\Program Files (x
86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE"
Generating deFinitions from Excel
A referenced type library "Office" is generated into the same package "excel"
Unable to handle the type SAVEARRAY(Variant)*
  method ConnectData
  interface IRtdServer
A referenced type library "VBIDE" is generated into the same package "excel"
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com4j.tlbimp.driver.Driver$1.resolve(Driver.java:64)
    at com4j.tlbimp.Generator$LibBinder.<init>(Generator.java:382)
    at com4j.tlbimp.Generator.getTypeLibInfo(Generator.java:686)
    at com4j.tlbimp.Generator.getTypeName(Generator.java:663)
    at com4j.tlbimp.TypeBinding.bind(TypeBinding.java:173)
    at com4j.tlbimp.MethodBinder.declareReturnType(MethodBinder.java:542)
    at com4j.tlbimp.MethodBinder.declareWithDefaults(MethodBinder.java:399)
    at com4j.tlbimp.MethodBinder.declare(MethodBinder.java:118)
    at com4j.tlbimp.InvocableInterfaceGenerator.generateMethod(InvocableInte
rfaceGenerator.java:39)
    at com4j.tlbimp.InterfaceGenerator.generate(InterfaceGenerator.java:94)
    at com4j.tlbimp.Generator$LibBinder.generate(Generator.java:491)
    at com4j.tlbimp.Generator.generate(Generator.java:112)
    at com4j.tlbimp.driver.Driver.run(Driver.java:107)
    at com4j.tlbimp.driver.Main.doMain(Main.java:132)
    at com4j.tlbimp.driver.Main.main(Main.java:56)

Solution

tlbimp-20110320. Jar requires args4j-2.0 1. Jar and com4j-20110320 jar

Additional information

The latest version of Tlbimp (tlbimp-2.1. Jar) requires args4j-2.0 8. Jar and com4j-2.1 jar. In this release, you do not need to change the file name