java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/Persistence

Question

hi , i'm using Netbeans 6.8 and build simple Maven web application project.

create Entity and main file for persist Entity [also create persist unit] and use EclipsLink.

but when i run main file get this error :

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/persistence/Persistence
        at Main.main(Main.java:34)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.persistence.Persistence
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
        ... 1 more

in netbeans projects window and in my project libraries folder only add this package :

javaee-web-api-6.0.jar [provided]

please help me for solve this Error

thanks

Answer 1

In your pom.xml you need to add a dependency to JPA libraries.