Extent Report Exception - selenium-webdriver

Question

I am getting the following exception while using Extent Report.
Any clue how do I resolve this?
I have listed the dependencies from POM.XML that I have used
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: freemarker/template/TemplateModelException
at com.relevantcodes.extentreports.ExtentReports.<init>(ExtentReports.java:86)
at com.relevantcodes.extentreports.ExtentReports.<init>(ExtentReports.java:375)
at com.eshot.qa.utils.ExtentReporterNG.generateReport(ExtentReporterNG.java:29)
at org.testng.TestNG.generateReports(TestNG.java:1097)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1022)
at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:114)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:251)
at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:77)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: freemarker.template.TemplateModelException
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
I have the following dependencies in the POM.xml file
<dependency>
<groupId>com.relevantcodes</groupId>
<artifactId>extentreports</artifactId>
<version>2.41.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.freemarker</groupId>
<artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>
<version>2.3.23</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
<artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
<version>1.8.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.xerial</groupId>
<artifactId>sqlite-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>3.8.11.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>
<artifactId>mongodb-driver</artifactId>
<version>3.0.4</version>
</dependency>

Answer 1

I would recommend using the latest version, instead of version 2 which is no longer supported.
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.aventstack/extentreports -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.aventstack</groupId>
<artifactId>extentreports</artifactId>
<version>4.0.9</version>
</dependency>
Here is a link to the latest documentation: http://extentreports.com/docs/versions/4/java/

Answer 2

If you have added freemarker and extentreports lib and still facing above error
then you should be followed below steps, it will be working fine
1) Delete only 'freemarker' folder from your local repository
i.e .m2\repository\org\freemarker\
2) And saved your pom.xml file again and run your code