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I am testing out maven and its capabilities. I am trying to write a string to a text file using commons-io 

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils; ... public void writeToFile(String fileName){ File file = new File(fileName); ... FileUtils.writeStringToFile(file,rowEntry); //rowEntry is a String }

I have added the commons-io to the dependencies

POM.xml 

<dependency> <groupId>commons-io</groupId> <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> </dependency>

It compiles but it throws an exception when I run it

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils at com.RandCollections.StringFinder.writeToFile(StringFinder.java:704) at com.RandCollections.StringFinder.menu(StringFinder.java:123) at com.RandCollections.StringFinderMain.main(StringFinderMain.java:28) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 3 more

I think Im missing out on some things, can you help point it out please?

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  • Hi, when you do a mvn install ,have FileUtils at your repo m2? Commented Jun 22, 2016 at 6:53
  • please use mvn clean and then mvn eclipse:eclipse that might solve ur problem... Thanks Commented Jun 22, 2016 at 6:55
  • @ZaoTaoBao yes i do have FileUtils at repo m2 Commented Jun 22, 2016 at 6:57
  • @ZaoTaoBao it's not a web app Commented Jun 22, 2016 at 7:10

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If it compiles fine but throws the exception when running, it means the dependency was on classpath when compiling but not when running the code.

Maven is responsible for compile classpath, and did provide the dependency on compile time. You'll have to check how you run the application and make sure the maven dependencies are also on the runtime classpath - that has nothing to do with Maven, unless you run the code as a part of unit tests.

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thanks for the idea, i was missing a plugin to be added in the pom.xml, works fine now.
which plugin, I have the same problem.
@AliTaha I had the same problem and got it working using the exec-maven-plugin. Then can just run mvn exec:java. I'm not sure why just normally compiling and running didn't work though, other dependencies were working fine for me.
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you can try adding library to your classpath ex:

javac -classpath fileUtillibraywhatever.jar YourClass.java

EDIT:

If your main class is in a package

package com.yourpackage.test; public class YourClass {}

then

 javac -classpath fileUtillibraywhatever.jar com/yourpackage/test/YourClass.java

and run

java -classpath fileUtillibraywhatever.jar com/yourpackage/test/YourClass

I hope it helps.. If you are working with iDE https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_add_an_extra_library_to_my_project's_classpath%3F

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