maven provided dependency will cause NoClassDefFoundError in intellij?

Question

IntelliJ doesn't seem to put the provided dependency on the classpath when I run it, however I can do this successfully in Eclipse.
As it would be a lot more convenient for me, how can I do this in IntelliJ?

Answer 1

I'm having the same problem. Intellij does not include provided dependencies in classpath. See this source. The best solution I found is to run it as maven app, using the exec:java goal. For example:

exec:java -Dexec.classpathScope=compile -Dexec.mainClass=com.splout.db.integration.NShardEnsemble -Dexec.args=4

Better solutions are welcome.