[🐛 Bug]: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: dev/failsafe/Policy

[36Tushar]

What happened?

I am using Eclipse -> Maven with Selenium version 4.25.0 . I have almost tried every solution present on github , youtube and chatgpt still not able to resolve the issue .

i have tried to run my code even after adding dev.failsafe dependency ->

<dependency>
            <groupId>dev.failsafe</groupId>
            <artifactId>failsafe</artifactId>
            <version>3.3.0</version>
</dependency>

still facing the same issue.

here is my pom file ->
pom file .docx

How can we reproduce the issue?

{ public static void main(String[] args) {
		
		System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "\"/Users/tusharyadav/Documents/chromedriver\"");
		var driver = new ChromeDriver();
		driver.get("https://www.google.com");
}

}

Relevant log output

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: dev/failsafe/Policy
	at org.seleniumhq.selenium.http/org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.ClientConfig.<clinit>(ClientConfig.java:33)
	at org.seleniumhq.selenium.chrome_driver/org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:84)
	at org.seleniumhq.selenium.chrome_driver/org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:52)
	at introduction/introduction.Chrome.main(Chrome.java:10)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: dev.failsafe.Policy
	at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)
	at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:526)
	... 4 more

Operating System

macOS Sonoma 14.0

Selenium version

Maven 4.0.0 , selenium-java 4.25.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome Version 129.0.6668.90 (Official Build) (arm64)

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

chrome driver -129.0.6668.89

Are you using Selenium Grid?

no

[github-actions]

@36Tushar, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[joerg1985]

@36Tushar you should remove the duplicate selenium-java and testng entries from your pom.xml. Alter this run mvn dependency:tree to check all selenium jars are from the same release version.

[36Tushar]

I have removed and checked versions and all selenium jars are from same release versions .

pom 2.docx

[joerg1985]

@36Tushar could you share the output of mvn dependency:tree as txt file?

[36Tushar]

pom file.txt

Here is my pom file

output.txt

Here is my output

[ahinvinith]

I am also facing this same issue. Is there a solution for this?

[joerg1985]

I don't have a solution, but a workaround for now.
This seems to be related to the java module system.
Adding requires dev.failsafe.core; to my module declaration did help.

[36Tushar]

Thanks will try it and let you know.