[FIXED] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/common/collect/ImmutableMap error using Selenium Java

Issue

Code trials:

package SeleniumSessions;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;


public class TestChrome {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
       System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\chromedriver.exe");

        WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();

        driver.get("https://www.google.com");

    }
}

Error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/common/collect/ImmutableMap
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver$ChromeDriverCommandExecutor.getExtraCommands(ChromeDriver.java:122)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver$ChromeDriverCommandExecutor.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:118)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:106)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:93)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:48)
    at SeleniumSessions.TestChrome.main

Error snapshot:

Solution

This error message...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/common/collect/ImmutableMap

...implies that the file com/google/common/collect/ImmutableMap might be corrupted or there is some incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using.

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Further you need to take care of a couple of things as follows:

• Instead of storing the chromedriver.exe binary right under C:\ try to put it within a directory as C:\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe and change the System.setProperty() line accordingly. So effectively, the line of code will be:

  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
  

Also ensure that:

• JDK is upgraded to current levels JDK 8u311.
• Selenium is upgraded to current released Version 4.1.3.
• ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v100.0 level.
• Chrome Browser is updated to current chrome=100.0 (as per chromedriver=100.0.4896.60 release notes).

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Reference

You can find a relevant discussion in:

• java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/common/collect/ImmutableMap error using GeckoDriver Firefox through Selenium in Java

Answered By - undetected Selenium
Answer Checked By - Marie Seifert (JavaFixing Admin)