I have a JavaEE maven project where I'm referencing a third-party library stored in WEB-INF/lib. When I build the project maven complains that package com.thirdparty.common does not exists. I changed the project to use maven-war-plugin and added the following configuration to include all libs in WEB-INF:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2</version>
<configuration>
<warSourceDirectory>src/main/webapp</warSourceDirectory>
<packagingIncludes>WEB-INF/lib/*.jar</packagingIncludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
I'm assuming that maven is not loading these third-party dependencies. How can I fix this issue?