Selenium 2 example not working - selenium-webdriver

Question

I havefollowed the example at
http://www.qaautomation.net/?p=263
package net.qaautomation.examples;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedCondition;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Wait;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
/**
* Search Google example.
*
* #author Rahul
*/
public class GoogleSearch {
static WebDriver driver;
static Wait<WebDriver> wait;
public static void main(String[] args) {
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
driver.get("http://www.google.com/");
boolean result;
try {
result = firstPageContainsQAANet();
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
result = false;
} finally {
driver.close();
}
System.out.println("Test " + (result? "passed." : "failed."));
if (!result) {
System.exit(1);
}
}
private static boolean firstPageContainsQAANet() {
//type search query
driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("qa automation\n");
// click search
driver.findElement(By.name("btnG")).click();
// Wait for search to complete
wait.until(new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
public Boolean apply(WebDriver webDriver) {
System.out.println("Searching ...");
return webDriver.findElement(By.id("resultStats")) != null;
}
});
// Look for QAAutomation.net in the results
return driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getText().contains("qaautomation.net");
}
}
to the letter but when I run it I get the error
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;ILorg/apache/http/conn/scheme/SchemeSocketFactory;)V
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.HttpClientFactory.getClientConnectionManager(HttpClientFactory.java:59)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.HttpClientFactory.<init>(HttpClientFactory.java:48)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.<init>(HttpCommandExecutor.java:120)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.NewProfileExtensionConnection.start(NewProfileExtensionConnection.java:81)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.startClient(FirefoxDriver.java:244)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:110)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:190)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:183)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:179)
at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:92)
at com.google.gwt.sample.contacts.test.GoogleSearch.main(GoogleSearch.java:20)
any ideas on what might be wrong? In fact several other examples I tried all give me a similar NoSuchMethod Error. EG http://thomassundberg.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/testing-a-web-application-with-selenium-2/
If you have any simple working Selenium2 example I would be grateful for a link. Thnx

Answer 1

If you're looking to get started with Selenium webdriver I'd suggest reading through the documentation on seleniumhq.org and perhaps try the example on the following page it's a little bit more simplified.
http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp
I would also suggest using eclipse and staying away from maven and ant until you get a good grasp on webdriver, that's assuming you're new to these applications.