title: Scribe and Spring Social integration for accessing LinkedIn APIs
body: <p>A couple of days back I was tasked with integrating Scribe and Spring Social for accessing LinkedIn APIs. Development environment being Windows, Spring and Java.</p>
  
  <p>Spring Social's (spring-social-core-1.0.0.M1.jar) LinkedInTemplate uses org.scribe.extensions.linkedin.LinkedInBaseStringExtractorImpl. (Log messages showed "NoClassDefFoundError" for LinkedInBaseStringExtractorImpl) This class is present in scribe-1.0.7.jar but not in the latest jar i.e scribe-1.1.0.jar (downloaded at <a href="https://github.com/fernandezpablo85/scribe-java" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fernandezpablo85/scribe-java</a>). </p>
  
  <p>I couldn't find a way to fix this issue. But I was able to do a quick hack: on my local machine, I copied LinkedInBaseStringExtractorImpl from scribe-1.0.7.jar into scribe-1.1.0.jar. Everything works like a charm now.</p>
  
  <p>I am curious to know if anyone else faced similar issues.</p>