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

In my case, I was using a dependency scoped as test. This made the class available at development time but, by at compile time, I got this message.

Turn the class scope for provided solved the problem.