Appium displays an error "org/openqa/selenium/remote/internal/JsonToWebElementConverter" when I used Selenium 4.0 official release with all versions of java-client #1536

Description

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/remote/internal/JsonToWebElementConverter
at common.ContextSteps.setUp(ContextSteps.java:86)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at cucumber.runtime.Utils$1.call(Utils.java:26)
at cucumber.runtime.Timeout.timeout(Timeout.java:16)
at cucumber.runtime.Utils.invoke(Utils.java:20)
at cucumber.runtime.java.JavaHookDefinition.execute(JavaHookDefinition.java:60)
at cucumber.runner.HookDefinitionMatch.runStep(HookDefinitionMatch.java:16)
at cucumber.runner.TestStep.executeStep(TestStep.java:65)
at cucumber.runner.TestStep.run(TestStep.java:50)
at cucumber.runner.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:42)
at cucumber.runner.Runner.runPickle(Runner.java:49)
at cucumber.runtime.junit.PickleRunners$WithStepDescriptions.run(PickleRunners.java:97)
at cucumber.runtime.junit.FeatureRunner.runChild(FeatureRunner.java:68)
at cucumber.runtime.junit.FeatureRunner.runChild(FeatureRunner.java:23)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$4.run(ParentRunner.java:331)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:79)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:329)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$100(ParentRunner.java:66)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:293)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:306)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:413)
at cucumber.runtime.junit.FeatureRunner.run(FeatureRunner.java:73)
at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.runChild(Cucumber.java:123)
at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.runChild(Cucumber.java:65)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$4.run(ParentRunner.java:331)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:79)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:329)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$100(ParentRunner.java:66)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:293)
at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber$RunCucumber.evaluate(Cucumber.java:147)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:306)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:413)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:89)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:40)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:541)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:768)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:464)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:210)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.JsonToWebElementConverter
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:382)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:355)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
... 41 more

java.lang.NullPointerException
at common.ContextSteps.tearDown(ContextSteps.java:439)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at cucumber.runtime.Utils$1.call(Utils.java:26)
at cucumber.runtime.Timeout.timeout(Timeout.java:16)
at cucumber.runtime.Utils.invoke(Utils.java:20)
at cucumber.runtime.java.JavaHookDefinition.execute(JavaHookDefinition.java:60)
at cucumber.runner.HookDefinitionMatch.runStep(HookDefinitionMatch.java:16)
at cucumber.runner.TestStep.executeStep(TestStep.java:65)
at cucumber.runner.TestStep.run(TestStep.java:50)
at cucumber.runner.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:50)
at cucumber.runner.Runner.runPickle(Runner.java:49)
at cucumber.runtime.junit.PickleRunners$WithStepDescriptions.run(PickleRunners.java:97)
at cucumber.runtime.junit.FeatureRunner.runChild(FeatureRunner.java:68)
at cucumber.runtime.junit.FeatureRunner.runChild(FeatureRunner.java:23)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$4.run(ParentRunner.java:331)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:79)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:329)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$100(ParentRunner.java:66)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:293)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:306)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:413)
at cucumber.runtime.junit.FeatureRunner.run(FeatureRunner.java:73)
at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.runChild(Cucumber.java:123)
at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.runChild(Cucumber.java:65)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$4.run(ParentRunner.java:331)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:79)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:329)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$100(ParentRunner.java:66)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:293)
at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber$RunCucumber.evaluate(Cucumber.java:147)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:306)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:413)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:89)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:40)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:541)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:768)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:464)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:210)

Environment

• Java client build version or git revision if you use some snapshot: 1.8
• Appium server version or git revision if you use some snapshot: 1.22.0
• Mobile platform/version under test: Genymotion - Android v10
• Real device or emulator/simulator: Emulator

Code To Reproduce Issue [ Good To Have ]

In pom.xml

	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
		<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
		<version>4.0.0</version>
	</dependency>

	<dependency>
		<groupId>io.appium</groupId>
		<artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
		<version>7.6.0</version>
	</dependency>

I got an error related to Selenium 4.0 with all versions of java-client. These other versions of Selenium work fine.

selenium-java | java-client | Status
3.141.59 | 7.3.0 | Working
4.0.0-alpha-1 | 7.1.0 | Working
4.0.0-alpha-1 | > 7.1.0 | Not working
4.0.0 | All versions | Not working