Issue while integrating selenium with cucumber with maven - selenium

Question

I am facing the below error in the base class (Java Step Defination Class)
The type org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebdriver cannot be resolved
I have tried with the solution provide to a similar question, However, none of them is working
Tried adding selenium remote driver class in the pom.xml
Tried clean the maven project and updating the project
Tried with new versions of cucumber, selenium java and other
Upon running the project I am facing the below issue or upon updating with new versions i am facing class not found error
Adding 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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>SeleniumCucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>WebAutomation101</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<version>6.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>3.141.59</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>6.6.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
What is the root cause of this problem, is there a way to fix it ?

Answer 1

I am able to resolve the issue after deleting the existing .m2 files from the system