How to resolve the error in Perceive while viewing reports: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class

If you are trying to view reports in Perceive with wildfly deployment and running into the below error:

Error Message

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRStyledTextParser (Error UID: 5431b9ec-5e88-46ae-8e50-0662fd47fdeb)

Follow below steps to fix the issue:

1. Open the appserver.properties file and add the below JVM argument for wildfly java options:
2. Save the Appserver.properties file and run validate-config-values script
3. Run clean script to uninstall the application.
4. Run deploy script to redeploy the application to take effect of the changes.
5. Once the deployment is done, restart server.
6. Try to access the report that was failing and it will be visible now.