diff --git a/xtable-utilities/pom.xml b/xtable-utilities/pom.xml
index 67142199d..d8832abf5 100644
--- a/xtable-utilities/pom.xml
+++ b/xtable-utilities/pom.xml
@@ -153,6 +153,20 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.hudi</groupId>
             <artifactId>hudi-common</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <!--
+          Hudi 1.x split the former hudi-common into hudi-common + hudi-io +
+          hudi-hadoop-common. xtable-core compiles against these with the Hudi
+          Spark bundle in provided scope (a real Spark cluster supplies them),
+          but the standalone utilities jar has no such runtime, so it must bundle
+          hudi-hadoop-common itself (hudi-io comes in transitively at runtime).
+          Without this, RunSync fails with NoClassDefFoundError:
+          org/apache/hudi/hadoop/fs/HadoopFSUtils.
+        -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.hudi</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hudi-hadoop-common</artifactId>
+            <version>${hudi.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.hudi</groupId>
             <artifactId>hudi-java-client</artifactId>
@@ -232,15 +246,17 @@
             <artifactId>hudi-spark${spark.version.prefix}-bundle_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.hudi</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hudi-java-client</artifactId>
-            <scope>test</scope>
-        </dependency>
+        <!--
+          Hudi's ObjectSizeCalculator loads org.openjdk.jol at runtime (not only in tests),
+          so the bundled utilities jar must ship it. The parent dependencyManagement pins
+          jol-core to test scope, so override to runtime here and add it to the shaded
+          artifactSet below. See https://github.com/apache/incubator-xtable/issues/736.
+        -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.openjdk.jol</groupId>
             <artifactId>jol-core</artifactId>
-            <scope>test</scope>
+            <version>${jol.core.version}</version>
+            <scope>runtime</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
@@ -574,6 +590,8 @@
                             <include>org.apache.httpcomponents.core5:httpcore5-h2</include>
                             <include>org.apache.hudi:hudi-client-common</include>
                             <include>org.apache.hudi:hudi-common</include>
+                            <include>org.apache.hudi:hudi-hadoop-common</include>
+                            <include>org.apache.hudi:hudi-io</include>
                             <include>org.apache.hudi:hudi-java-client</include>
                             <include>org.apache.hudi:hudi-timeline-service</include>
                             <include>org.apache.iceberg:iceberg-api</include>
@@ -696,6 +714,7 @@
                             <include>org.json4s:json4s-scalap_${scala.binary.version}</include>
                             <include>org.lz4:lz4-java</include>
                             <include>org.objenesis:objenesis</include>
+                            <include>org.openjdk.jol:jol-core</include>
                             <include>org.reactivestreams:reactive-streams</include>
                             <include>org.roaringbitmap:RoaringBitmap</include>
                             <include>org.roaringbitmap:shims</include>
@@ -707,6 +726,7 @@
                             <include>org.scala-lang.modules:scala-xml_${scala.binary.version}</include>
                             <include>org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j</include>
                             <include>org.slf4j:jul-to-slf4j</include>
+                            <include>org.slf4j:slf4j-api</include>
                             <include>org.slf4j:slf4j-reload4j</include>
                             <include>org.threeten:threeten-extra</include>
                             <include>org.threeten:threetenbp</include>