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maven build is failing due to dependency package does not exist while dependency package actually exists

I have two spring-boot projects in Eclipse.

  1. commons-lib
  2. keygenerator-service

keygenerator-service has dependency on commons-lib so I have built commons-lib first and jar got created successfully in m2 folder. Then I have mentioned the dependency on keygenerator-service's pom.xml file like below.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.abz</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-lib</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

jar file is present as C:\Users\snsur.m2\repository\com\abz\commons-lib\1.0.0\commons-lib-1.0.0.jar and looks good.

But now when I am trying to do maven build of keygenerator-service getting below errors:

[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] /C:/Drive D/Projects/workspace-backend/workspace1/keygenerator-service/src/main/java/com/abz/keygenerator/core/KeyStore.java:[13,33] package com.abz.commons.exception does not exist
[ERROR] /C:/Drive D/Projects/workspace-backend/workspace1/keygenerator-service/src/main/java/com/abz/keygenerator/core/KeyStore.java:[14,33] package com.abz.commons.exception does not exist

I could see the package exists in the jar file as well.

C:\Users\snsur\Documents\Work\SWs\jdk-11.0.11\bin>jar tvf C:\Users\snsur\.m2\repository\com\abz\commons-lib\1.0.0\commons-lib-1.0.0.jar
0 Thu Jul 29 21:33:44 IST 2021 META-INF/
358 Thu Jul 29 21:33:44 IST 2021 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
.....
0 Thu Jul 29 21:33:46 IST 2021 BOOT-INF/classes/com/abz/commons/exception/
0 Thu Jul 29 21:33:46 IST 2021 BOOT-INF/classes/com/abz/commons/model/
INF/classes/com/abz/commons/exception/AlreadyExistsException.class
INF/classes/com/abz/commons/exception/InvalidDataException.class

I have checked many stackoverflow link for this type of issue but nothing works for me. I even deleted .m2 folder and freshly built the commons-lib project but still no luck.

Please help me to successfully build keygenerator-service with commons-lib jar.

Solution

  • This is a runnable spring boot jar.

    Making it runnable destroys its ability to be used as a dependency (notice the path prefixes)

    Fix: only do this to the final jar you want to run.