Hi,
I have only little experience with Maven. Currently, I'm working on a project with JPA. It's a desktop application without Application Server. I added the hibernate-entitymanager-3.4.0.GA.jar to the dependencies (all corresponding dependencies are resolved by Maven). My JUnit tests concerning Hibernate and Entities run fine with no errors (so I guess that Maven principally runs fine). Unfortunately, I get the an error (see below) when I am creating a jar file and run the program afterwards. As I can see, of course, the javax.persistence jar provided by the ejb3-persistence.jar is obviously missing. But I don't know how to fix the problem. When I'm running the program as a simple Java Desktop App, everything is fine. If you could provide me any more information, that would be great. Thanks in advance. Martin [INFO] Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/Persistence [INFO] at de.bamannheim.grademaster.database.DatabaseConnection.<init>(DatabaseConnect ion.java:32) [INFO] at de.bamannheim.grademaster.database.UserPersistence.loadUser(UserPersistence. java:86) [INFO] at de.bamannheim.grademaster.meta.Session.login(Session.java:84) [INFO] at de.bamannheim.grademaster.gui.Login.myJBtnLoginMouseClicked(Login.java:137) [INFO] at de.bamannheim.grademaster.gui.Login.access$2(Login.java:134) [INFO] at de.bamannheim.grademaster.gui.Login$3.mouseClicked(Login.java:76) [INFO] at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseClicked(AWTEventMulticaster.java:253) [INFO] at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6137) [INFO] at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3265) [INFO] at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5899) [INFO] at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2023) [INFO] at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4501) [INFO] at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2081) [INFO] at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4331) [INFO] at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4301) [INFO] at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3974) [INFO] at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3895) [INFO] at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2067) [INFO] at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2458) [INFO] at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4331) [INFO] at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599) [INFO] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java :269) [INFO] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:18 4) [INFO] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java :174) [INFO] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169) [INFO] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161) [INFO] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122) [INFO] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.persistence.Persistence [INFO] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) [INFO] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) [INFO] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) [INFO] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) [INFO] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) [INFO] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252) [INFO] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320) [INFO] ... 27 more