Maven dependency .jar file not found

Question

I have a simple maven project where I have a simple class analyzing File encoding. I am using the juniversalchardet library from Google juniversalchardet library . In the pom.xml I added the dependency from link above. When I build the project with mvn clean install, everything looks fine. In the local repository I see tha universalchardet.jar file also. The class file in my project is also compiled without errors. But when I run my project.JAR i get an error like this:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/mozilla/universalchardet/UniversalDetector

Here is my dependency:

    <dependency>
       <groupId>com.googlecode.juniversalchardet</groupId>
       <artifactId>juniversalchardet</artifactId>
       <version>1.0.3</version>
    </dependency> 

I am not very familiar with Java - what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can try this https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/jar/downman.html where you mention your dependency jar in your manifest file: Class-Path: juniversalchardet.jar

Or Consider making your jar as uber jar, refer: What is an uber jar?