Thanks for reply.

Hmm, I think my jar doesn't contain log4j - it only contains App.class and
pom.xml with pom.properties and manifest.mf. Is it a correctly built jar?

And I wonder why Maven2 won't set *somewhere* classpaths to jars on its own
if it knows where they are :-/


Jan-Christopher Bals-2 wrote:
> 
> You have to provide log4j via the classpath on your own.
> Maven does include log4j in your generated jar automatically.
> 
> But Maven can generate the classpath for you
> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/usage.html
> ->dependency:build-classpath
> 
> 
> 2007/6/26, DCVer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm creating a jar using "mvn package". The files, which are included in
>> this jar are using another jar (e.g. log4j-1.2.14.jar), which are stored
>> in
>> maven repository. My part of pom.xml file responsible for dependencies
>> looks
>> like:
>>
>> <dependency>
>>   <groupId>log4j</groupId>
>>   <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
>>   <version>1.2.14</version>
>>   <scope>compile</scope>
>>   <type>jar</type>
>> </dependency>
>>
>> The "mvn package" process finishes correctly, but when i run the jar
>> using:
>>
>> java -cp target\my-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.mycompany.app.App
>>
>> i receive the error:
>>
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>> org/apache/log4j/Logger
>>
>> (on line:
>> private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("com.mycompany.app.App");
>>
>> In my opinion the jar, that was created using "mvn package" doesn't know
>> about dependencies (and about jars stored in repository?). How should I
>> set
>> classpaths and make this jar work correctly? Isn't it a BASIC
>> functionality,
>> that Maven2 should do, when I set <dependency> in pom.xml file?
>>
>> I tried this with other jars (in repository) and other methods of the
>> classes included in jars and the results were exactly the same.
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