# Getting Jar Hell When Running Test in Intellij

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-jar-hell-when-running-test-in-intellij/55664>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 15, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-jar-hell-when-running-test-in-intellij/55664 "2016-07-15T22:51:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dadepo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadepo/32/19944_2.png) [@dadepo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadepo)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-jar-hell-when-running-test-in-intellij/55664/1 "2016-07-15T22:51:51Z")

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Using Version 2.3.3. Any idea how to resolve this? Thanks

```
java.lang.RuntimeException: found jar hell in test classpath

	at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.BootstrapForTesting.<clinit>(BootstrapForTesting.java:95)
	at org.elasticsearch.test.ESTestCase.<clinit>(ESTestCase.java:99)
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348)
	at com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting.RandomizedRunner$2.run(RandomizedRunner.java:585)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: jar hell!
class: org.hamcrest.BaseDescription
jar1: /Users/dadepo/.ivy2/cache/junit/junit/jars/junit-4.10.jar
jar2: /Users/dadepo/.ivy2/cache/org.mockito/mockito-all/jars/mockito-all-1.8.4.jar
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**Author:** ![ndtreviv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ndtreviv/32/22494_2.png) [@ndtreviv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ndtreviv)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-jar-hell-when-running-test-in-intellij/55664/2 "2016-08-02T10:52:54Z")

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You probably need to exclude hamcrest-core from the junit dependency.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-jar-hell-when-running-test-in-intellij/55664/3 "2017-07-05T22:30:53Z")

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