In Maven project, a class is found in local jar file at compile time, but not run time. why?

Question

In a Maven project, I can include the classes with no problem.

However, during the runtime, I get ClassNotFoundException when I try to create an instance of that class.

Part of the pom.xml file:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>acmeGamesGroupId</groupId>
            <artifactId>acmegames</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
            <scope>system</scope>
            <systemPath>${acmegameslibs}\acme-1.0.jar</systemPath>
        </dependency>

Why can a class be found during compile-time, but not in the run-time? What do I need to do in the pom.xml file? help.

related to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10935135/maven-and-adding-jars-to-system-scope ? — Alvin Thompson, Aug 07 '18 at 18:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '18 at 18:02

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You need more info. What is your execution environment: native java, tomcat, what? But my guess is your app is delivered as a jar file. Unexpectedly the Java class loader cannot find classes in embedded jar files

answered Aug 07 '18 at 18:02

Terry

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In Maven project, a class is found in local jar file at compile time, but not run time. why?

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