Error in neo4j java driver

Drivers & Stacks Java
1

Hello,

I copied the example on: Overview (Neo4j Java Driver 5.2 API).
After compiling SmallExample.java into a jar-file and running it from the command line with:
java -cp name_jar_file.jar SmallExample

I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/neo4j/driver/AuthTokens
at SmallExample.(SmallExample.java:12)
at SmallExample.main(SmallExample.java:56)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.neo4j.driver.AuthTokens
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:521)
... 2 more

I have an active database running through Neo4j Deskop and the username and password are correctly altered in the original example.
Can someone point out what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

2

you need to have the neo4j-java-driver jar file on your classpath in addition to your code, see https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.neo4j.driver/neo4j-java-driver/4.0.1.

3

Isnt that taken care of by the pom-file automatically? I have declared it as a dependency there:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.neo4j.driver</groupId>
  <artifactId>neo4j-java-driver</artifactId>
  <version>4.0.1</version>
</dependency>
4

For build time yes. If you want to bundle the neo4j-java-driver jar into your application's jar file, you need to Apache Maven Shade Plugin – Introduction or something similar.