Maven Error: Could not find or load main class

Question

I\'m using a Java Maven program and I don\'t know what to enter as the . I\'ve tried all kinds of things based off of numerous stackoverflow q

Answer 1

For me the problem was nothing to do with Maven but to do with how I was running the .jar. I wrote some code and packaged it as a .jar with Maven. I ran it with

java target/gs-maven-0.1.0.jar

and got the error in the OP. Actually you need the -jar option:

java -jar target/gs-maven-0.1.0.jar