Dependencies

See displaytag/dependencies.html for the list of dependencies needed by displaytag.

If you use maven in your project all you need to do is adding the following to the dependencies section in your POM. Maven will take care of including all the needed libraries for you.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.displaytag</groupId>
  <artifactId>displaytag</artifactId>
  <version>2.0</version>
</dependency>

Since displaytag uses http://www.slf4j.org/ for logging you will also need to choose a slf4j logging implementation (by default displaytag dependencies will only include slf4j-api, in order to let you choose your preferred implementation). You usually may want to include the log4j adapter, using:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
  <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
  <version>1.7.7</version>
</dependency>

Optional dependencies

By default Displaytag render excel files using a text-based format. You may need to enable a different exporter using excel binary format: the exporter is included by default in the distribution but you will also need to include the poi dependency in order to use it:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
  <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
  <version>3.10-FINAL</version>
</dependency>

(the export-poi module was distributed in a separate jar before version 2.0. Since displaytag 2.0 the module is not required since it has been included in the main jar)