Cannot run jar file created from Scala file - scala

Question

This the code that I have written in Scala.
object Main extends App {
println("Hello World from Scala!")
}
This is my build.sbt.
name := "hello-world"
version := "1.0"
scalaVersion := "2.11.5"
mainClass := Some("Main")
This is the command that I have run to create the jar file.
sbt package
My problem is that a jar file named hello-world_2.11-1.0.jar has been created at target/scala-2.11. But I cannot run the file. It is giving me an error saying NoClassDefFoundError.
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

It also says what class is not found. Most likely you aren't including scala-library.jar. You can run scala target/scala-2.11/hello-world_2.11-1.0.jar if you have Scala 2.11 available from the command line or java -cp "<path to scala-library.jar>:target/scala-2.11/hello-world_2.11-1.0.jar" Main (use ; instead of : on Windows).

Answer 2

The procedure depicted proves valid up to the way the jar file is executed. From target/scala-2.11 try running it with
scala hello-world_2.11-1.0.jar
Check whether it is runnable also from the project root folder with sbt run.

Answer 3

To run the jar file(containing scala code) with multiple main classes use following approach
scala -cp "<jar-file>.jar;<other-dependencies>.jar" com.xyz.abc.TestApp
This command will take care of including scala-library.jar in dependency and will also identify TestApp as main class if it has a def main(args:Array[String]) method. Please note that multiple jar files should be separated by semi-colon(";")

Answer 4

We can use sbt-assembly to package and run the application.
First, create or add the plugin to project/plugins.sbt
addSbtPlugin("com.eed3si9n" % "sbt-assembly" % "0.14.9")
The sample build.sbt looks like below:
name := "coursera"
version := "0.1"
scalaVersion := "2.12.10"
mainClass := Some("Main")
val sparkVersion = "3.0.0-preview2"
val playVersion="2.8.1"
val jacksonVersion="2.10.1"
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
"org.scala-lang" % "scala-library" % scalaVersion.toString(),
"org.apache.spark" %% "spark-streaming" % sparkVersion,
"org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % sparkVersion,
"org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql" % sparkVersion,
"com.typesafe.play" %% "play-json" % playVersion,
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-streaming-kafka-0-10
"org.apache.spark" %% "spark-streaming-kafka-0-10" % sparkVersion,
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.mongodb/casbah
"org.mongodb" %% "casbah" % "3.1.1" pomOnly(),
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.typesafe/config
"com.typesafe" % "config" % "1.2.1"
)
assemblyMergeStrategy in assembly := {
case PathList("META-INF", xs # _*) => MergeStrategy.discard
case x => MergeStrategy.first
}
From console, we can run sbt assembly and the jar file gets created in target/scala-2.12/ path.
sbt assembly will create a fat jar. Here is an excerpt from the documentation :
sbt-assembly is a sbt plugin originally ported from codahale's assembly-sbt, which I'm guessing was inspired by Maven's assembly plugin. The goal is simple: Create a fat JAR of your project with all of its dependencies.