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Selenium Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not start Selenium session

You have a simple Java Selenium Code. All of it looks perfect :) except for when you try running it, it fails miserably again and again with an exception: 



java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not start Selenium session
The possible solutions for the above issue can be the following: 
    

  1. You repeated the "selenium.start()" issue - Looks like if we create a webdriver first and then create a selenium object thereafter, an internal issue arises with the selenium server where it fails when we use selenium.start() 
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    1. So if you are wondering on how to solve - Use selenium.open() instead
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