Run Eclipse Java project outside Eclipse

Question

I'm a Java newbie. I have a Java application that runs perfectly in Eclipse. I have exported it as a jar file aaccording to the instruction found at http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/Eclipse/article.html#firstjavaexport.

However, when I run my application from the command line, I get an error message saying:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/WebDriver
        at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Unknown Source)
        at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.getMainMethod(Unknown Source)
        at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        ... 6 more

What am I doing wrong?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11033603/how-to-create-a-jar-with-external-libraries-included-in-eclipse Basically you need to add your dependencies to the jar — diazazar, Jan 31 '14 at 14:53
You don't have dependent jars like selenium or any other which you might have used in your code. — Husam, Jan 31 '14 at 14:53
@paul.cioroianu: Thanks a lot. But how do I create a launch configuration for a JUnit Test? All the ones I can see are only for Java applications. — user1801060, Jan 31 '14 at 15:22
I'd say that the biggest problem here is lack of vital knowledge; you don't know how to manage using Java outside of Eclipse, and so you don't know how to for example manage a classpath. — Gimby, Jan 31 '14 at 15:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 31 '14 at 14:58

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You need export your project like Runnable JAR file (File > export > Java / Runnable JAR file).

After this, you can execute via command line java -jar app.jar

answered Jan 31 '14 at 14:58

Marco Paulo Ollivier

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '14 at 15:07

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Package the dependencies in your jar file or add the dependency to your classpath when running your app e.g. java -classpath /path/to/dependency.jar -jar myapp.jar

answered Jan 31 '14 at 15:07

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Run Eclipse Java project outside Eclipse

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