book-cli | Init html book with markdown files

The problem is how you run your code in the end.

When you compile and build your project, Maven will put all your compiled code into your jar file. This is the one you add to the classpath for execution. But you already know there are two more dependencies which you did not specify.

What you may want Maven to do is copy all your dependencies to your target folder. This can be done via the maven dependency plugin. Next, you probably do not want to specify all the required libs on the classpath when you run your code. At least in my projects I add the main class and the classpath into the manifest using the maven jar plugin.

Here is a snippet from my pom.xml: