I have this error with cucumber when running the runner“java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io/cucumber/messages/Messages$JavaMethod”

Question

FAILED: runScenario("Register To website", "Optional[User Registration]")
        Runs Cucumber Scenarios
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io/cucumber/messages/Messages$JavaMethod
    at io.cucumber.core.runner.CachingGlue.createSourceReference(CachingGlue.java:303)
    at io.cucumber.core.runner.CachingGlue.lambda$emitStepDefined$5(CachingGlue.java:293)
    at java.util.Optional.ifPresent(Unknown Source)
    at io.cucumber.core.runner.CachingGlue.emitStepDefined(CachingGlue.java:293)
    at io.cucumber.core.runner.CachingGlue.lambda$prepareGlue$3(CachingGlue.java:252)
    at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(Unknown Source)
    at io.cucumber.core.runner.CachingGlue.prepareGlue(CachingGlue.java:243)
    at io.cucumber.core.runner.Runner.runPickle(Runner.java:68)

I have this error when running cucumber with BDD and java
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UPdate: i use this dependancies for Cucumber what is wrong with it

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>
        <version>6.4.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>
        <version>6.4.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
        <version>6.4.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>gherkin</artifactId>
        <version>15.0.0</version>
    </dependency>

Answer 1

I downgraded the dependencies then it worked because I use java 8 My reference is Cucumber docs

<dependency>
        <groupId>com.github.javafaker</groupId>
        <artifactId>javafaker</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-testng</artifactId>
        <version>6.2.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>
        <version>6.2.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
        <version>6.2.0</version>
    </dependency>