java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.json.JSONException

Question

I am building a simple maven project. I used build path to add json as a third party library and also added it to web-inf library. In the end, i added the dependency in pom.xml. However, with all the effort above, i still get this exception. Any information and advice is appreciated!

below is the exception

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [sfmserver] in context with path [/mysfmovies] threw exception [Servlet execution threw an exception] with root cause
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.json.JSONException

Below is the content of my pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.mysfmovies</groupId>
  <artifactId>mysfmovies</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>mysfmovies Maven Webapp</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
      <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
            <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.json</groupId>
            <artifactId>json</artifactId>
            <version>20090211</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.code.geocoder-java</groupId>
            <artifactId>geocoder-java</artifactId>
            <version>0.16</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <finalName>mysfmovies</finalName>
  </build>
</project>

Answer 1

you can solve this add the following dependency (http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.json/json/20080701)

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.json</groupId>
   <artifactId>json</artifactId>
   <version>20080701</version>
</dependency>