I am using intellij and maven, I have used the following 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/4.0.0http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.tengen</groupId> <artifactId>M101J</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>jar</packaging> <name>M101J</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> </properties> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.mongodb</groupId> <artifactId>mongo-java-driver</artifactId> <version>2.11.3</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.sparkjava</groupId> <artifactId>spark-core</artifactId> <version>1.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>4.9</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </project> ------------------------------ package com.tengen; import spark.Request; import spark.Response; import spark.Route; import spark.Spark; /** * Created with IntelliJ IDEA. * User: seenu * Date: 10/19/13 * Time: 7:44 PM * To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates. */ public class HelloWorldSparkStyle { public static void main(String[] args){ Spark.get(new Route("/") { @Override public Object handle(Request request, Response response) { return "Hello World from Spark!"; //To change body of implemented methods use File | Settings | File Templates. } }); } } ---------------------------------- when I run, via intellij here is what I see, /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/bin/java -Didea.launcher.port=7536 -Didea.launcher.bin.path=/home/sree/IDEA/idea-IC-129.1359/bin -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/jfr.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/deploy.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/javaws.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/management-agent.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/jce.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/jfxrt.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/plugin.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/resources.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/rt.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/ext/sunpkcs11.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/ext/sunec.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_40/jre/lib/ext/zipfs.jar:/home/sree/M101J/out/production/main:/home/sree/.m2/repository/org/mongodb/mongo-java-driver/2.11.3/mongo-java-driver-2.11.3.jar:/home/sree/.m2/repository/com/sparkjava/spark-core/1.1/spark-core-1.1.jar:/home/sree/IDEA/idea-IC-129.1359/lib/idea_rt.jar com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain com.tengen.HelloWorldSparkStyle Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/LoggerFactory at spark.route.RouteMatcherFactory.<clinit>(RouteMatcherFactory.java:27) at spark.Spark.init(Spark.java:299) at spark.Spark.addRoute(Spark.java:282) at spark.Spark.get(Spark.java:168) at com.tengen.HelloWorldSparkStyle.main(HelloWorldSparkStyle.java:18) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:120) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.slf4j.LoggerFactory at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 10 more Process finished with exit code 1 ----------------------------- what could be wrong here? can someone please point me whre to look? I was hoping maven would put the slf4j-api into the classpath when I add dependency but it is not. Sent from my iPhone