Of course, adding the dependency to the maven plugin dependencies in the POM), like advertised for logging frameworks in jbehave documentation, also "solves" the problem.

Hi,

I've created a dumb project on github using a jbehave artifact: https://github.com/bclozel/jbehave-scope-provided

Maven documentation says scope=provided dependencies are within compile + test classpaths. JBehave embedder is using both depending on configuration.

mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 18:31:09+0100)

With this configuration, my embedder classpath does not contain the javax.servlet JAR. When the dependency scope is changed to "compile", then this JAR is listed in classpath elements.

Any pointer here would be really helpful.

Thanks,

-- Brian

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Mauro Talevi <mauro.talevi-hQ+s5KbX5YmGglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org> wrote:

Hi Brian,

can you provide us with a sample project (with pom.xml and the simplest source possible) reproducing this issue?

Thanks

On 02/07/2012 15:51, Brian wrote:

Hello there

I've been trying to use jbehave on a project and I ran into some problems.

When running the maven goal, I got the following error:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.jbehave:jbehave-maven-plugin:3.6.7:run-stories-as-embeddables (default-cli) on project springmvc-router: Execution default-cli of goal org.jbehave:jbehave-maven-plugin:3.6.7:run-stories-as-embeddables failed: A required class was missing while executing org.jbehave:jbehave-maven-plugin:3.6.7:run-stories-as-embeddables: javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest

It looks like jbehave's Embedder classloader can't locate the HttpServletRequest. This dependency is declared in my main POM like this:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

If I ever change the scope to "compile", I get another error saying:

Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: org.myproject.OneOfMyProjectClasses
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:340)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
at org.jbehave.core.embedder.EmbedderClassLoader.newInstance(EmbedderClassLoader.java:37)
... 24 more

Is there a typo/bug in my configuration?

I've browsed jbehave-maven-plugin (AbstractEmbedderMojo to be precise) but couldn't anything on dependencies in provided scope. Should I open an issue about that? 

This is the maven config I've added to my POM:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.jbehave</groupId>
                <artifactId>jbehave-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${jbehave.version}</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>run-stories-as-embeddables</id>
                        <phase>integration-test</phase>
                        <configuration>
                            <scope>test</scope>
                            <includes>
                                <include>**/MyStories.java</include>
                            </includes>
                        </configuration>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>run-stories-as-embeddables</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

Thanks

-- Brian