pom.xml error - Missing artifact com.lowagie:itext:jar:4.2.2, how dowload itext 4.2.2 jar file?

Question

How I can download itext 4.2.2 jar as using in old project and getting error in pom.xml, I dont want to use and change itextpdf 5.x.x version

error - Missing artifact com.lowagie:itext:jar:4.2.2

Answer 1

iText 4.2.2 does not exist, and has never existed as a jar. If you look at Maven Central for 4.2.2 (https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.lowagie/itext/4.2.2/pom), you will see that it only exists as a redirect to 5.5.6. I know, because I am the person who wrote that version of the POM and uploaded it to Maven Central. This blog post describes in full detail why it was done: https://itextpdf.com/en/blog/technical-notes/my-maven-build-broken-what-should-i-do

To fix your build, you either need to use com.lowagie:itext:jar:2.1.7 (last official release of the 2.x.x version by iText Software) or you can use com.itextpdf:itextpdf:jar:5.5.13.1, but then you also have to update all your import statements from com.lowagie.* to com.itextpdf.*, but apart from that your code should work just fine.

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