[SOLVED] Maven, package does not exist

Maven, package does not exist

I have a module whose pom file is:

<groupId>com.mycompany.Common</groupId>
<artifactId>common</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>common module</name>

In that artifact ('common'), I have a package named com.mycompany.common.objects. In the consuming package, my pom file is:

 <dependency>
            <groupId>com.mycompany.Common</groupId>
            <artifactId>common</artifactId>
            <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
            <type>pom</type>
 </dependency>

When I run mvn install it always complain: package com.mycompany.common.objects does not exist.

I tried explicit importing in the class where the error was:

import com.mycompany.common.objects

No luck. I tried in both the IDE (IntelliJ) and on the command line. Any ideas? Thanks

Solution

From your sample, we cannot see any artifact containing the package com.mycompany.common.objects you are using.

You are adding dependency com.mycompany.Common:common as a POM (and you are declaring the packaging of com.mycompany.Common:common as POM too). If it is actually a JAR artifact that contains the package you need to use, then remove the packaging from the POM and dependency (which means, using default which is JAR).