maven “cannot find symbol” message unhelpful

Question

This is a really simple question, and it\'s probably a setting somewhere I don\'t know about, but Google is being particularly unhelpful for this question, giving results ab

Answer 1

I had the same problem. The reason was that I had two JAR files were not added through the Maven dependency, so when I ran mvn compile, the console display the error error:

Symbol cannot be found,Class...".

To fix it:

1. Remove the JAR files from build path
2. Add to build path
3. Run mvn compile