Unable to set maven dependencies for RemoteWebDriver - selenium

Question

I am not able to resolve RemoteWebDriver in eclipse due issues in maven dependency. I need RemoteWebDriver to get the browser version (for reporting purpose). I have mentioned the following maven dependencies yet I am not able to resolve RemoteWebDriver. As per the earlier post The import org.openqa.selenium.remote.CapabilityType cannot be resolved I have to manually download selenium-standalone-server. I am not understanding as to why maven dependency is not sufficient? Is there any other maven dependency that can be added to resolve RemoteWebDriver
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>3.141.59</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-remote-driver</artifactId>
<version>3.141.59</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-server</artifactId>
<version>3.141.59</version>
</dependency>
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//Below is what I am trying to code
Capabilities cap = ((RemoteWebDriver) driver).getCapabilities();
String browserName = cap.getBrowserName().toLowerCase();

Answer 1

It is quite enough to have only selenium-java, it will resolve selenium-remote-driver via Maven transitive dependency mechanism
Given you mention that you have to manually download Selenium Standalone Server you don't need this selenium-server dependency as well
So it should be as simple as:
pom.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>3.141.59</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Test class:
import org.openqa.selenium.Capabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
import java.net.URL;
public class SeleniumTest {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "c:/apps/webdriver/chromedriver.exe");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
RemoteWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"), capabilities);
Capabilities cap = driver.getCapabilities();
String browserName = cap.getBrowserName().toLowerCase();
System.out.println(browserName);
driver.quit();
}
}
Demo:
More information:
Remote WebDriver
Selenium with Java
ChromeDriver - Getting Started