Not able to create FirefoxDriver instance in a servlet

Question

I had created a java application for selenium webdriver.

FirefoxDriver driverff= new FirefoxDriver();

used to create a new Firefox instance. This is working fine.

I want to create a java web application to do the same.

I have embeded the same code in the servlet class in the doget() method and it throws

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/firefox/FirefoxDriver

Can someone tell me how i can fix this?

From an end to end perspective, what oi want to achieve is that a web page (done using servlets) has some buttons which when clicked need to open a selenium web driver and run the selenium scripts. I am assuming the java application for web-driver can be called using servlet.

If there is some other alternative to achieve this, please do suggest.

Answer 1

The error message means that Java can't find the class in question. Make sure it's on the classpath of your web app.

That said, you may run into problems later: Linux web servers often don't have an attached display so no X server is running. That will make it hard to start a browser :-) If that's the case for you, look up Google for "selenium xvnc" or "selenium headless"