IllegalAccessError thrown by new ChromeDriver() on OSX (Java)

Question

Getting this under Eclipse straight out of the gate.

Code:

    System.setProperty(\"webdriver.chrome.driver\" ,  \"/path/to/selenium/chromedriver\");
            


        

Answer 1

the main problem is you have a jar conflict.

selenium has compile dependency on guava, you can find this at: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-chrome-driver/3.141.0

if you project has another version of guava, it may use wrong guava version.

to exclude duplicate dependency in maven, you can add right guava version explicitly, in this case:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.guava/guava -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
    <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
    <version>25.0-jre</version>
</dependency>

Answer 2

Setting this back to 22.0 helped for me.

Version 22.0 didn't fix the problem for me, but 19.0 did.

compile group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '19.0'

Answer 3

Setting this back to 22.0 helped for me.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
        <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
        <version>22.0</version>
    </dependency>