Unable to execute Maven project from command line through java command

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I created a Maven project for Selenium automation. Am able to execute the test from Eclipse through "RunAs Configurations" as below screenshot:

I am able to execute mvn clean and mvn package without any errors. But when I execute the command java -cp target\auto-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar scripts.FirstMain, I am getting the error as below:

D:\SeleniumProject>java -cp target\auto-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
scripts.FirstMain
    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/W
    ebDriver
            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
    D:\SeleniumProject>

pom.xml:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.sample.test</groupId>
    <artifactId>auto</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>autoTrial</name>
    <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>2.53.1</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

My code is :

package scripts;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class FirstMain {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
  // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  WebDriver wd = new FirefoxDriver();
  wd.get("http://www.gmail.com");
  wd.manage().window().maximize();
  try {
   Thread.sleep(5000);
  } catch (InterruptedException e) {
   // TODO Auto-generated catch block
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
  wd.close();
  wd.quit();
 }
}

so were exactly are you referencing the selenium jar when you try to run your program? — Apostolos, Jul 08 '16 at 07:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 08 '16 at 07:56

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You should add your lib directory too in the classpath. Do like this :

java -cp "target\auto-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar;target\lib\*" scripts.FirstMain

edited Jul 08 '16 at 07:56

S.K. Venkat

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answered Jul 08 '16 at 07:38

Ebrahim Pasbani

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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The exception is because of not finding your dependencies at run-time, one solution is to add that dependency to your class path or you can package your jar with all dependencies by using maven assembly plugin.link here

edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

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answered Jul 08 '16 at 08:45

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