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    copied!<p>I'd like to define a few public class constant-like variables for a class I also create an instance of.</p> <p>In my class Response I've defined a few responseCodes which I'd like to use as constants all over the application.</p> <p>Please don't worry about the sense of this code, this is just a copy and paste of snippets to show how I am trying to use the class constants.</p> <p>My IntelliJ doesn't complain about this syntax at all, but when I am trying to build the code I get </p> <pre><code>Filter.java:[84,36] cannot find symbol symbol : variable BR_PARTIALLY_OK </code></pre> <p>My sample class with consts</p> <pre><code>package xx.xx.xxxxx.connector; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; public class Response { public static final int BR_OK = 200; public static final int BR_PARTIALLY_OK = 250; public static final int BR_NOT_AUTHORIZED = 401; public static final int BR_REQUEST_TIMEOUT = 408; public static final int BR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED = 501; public static final int BR_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE = 503; private Map&lt;String, List&lt;String&gt;&gt; headers = new HashMap&lt;String, List&lt;String&gt;&gt;(); private String body = null; public void addHeader(String key, List&lt;String&gt; value) { this.headers.put(key, value); } public String getBody() { return body; } public void setBody(String body) { this.body = body; } public Map&lt;String, List&lt;String&gt;&gt; getHeaders() { return headers; } } </code></pre> <p>Desired example use in another class</p> <pre><code>package xx.xx.xxxxx.filter; // other package, other maven artifact but depends response package import xx.xx.xxxxx.connector.Response; public class Filter { public int doFilter(Service service) { Response myResponse = service.post(..); return Response.BR_PARTIALLY_OK; } } </code></pre> <p>I've also tried</p> <pre><code>import static xxx.xxx.Response.* </code></pre> <p>or</p> <pre><code>import static xxx.xxx.Response.BR_PARTIALLY_OK; </code></pre> <p>and use</p> <pre><code>return BR_PARTIALLY_OK </code></pre> <p>same "cannot find symbol" error already on the import</p> <p>I've seen the interface and const class examples but I'd like to know why this example doesn't work</p> <p>EDIT: Maybe the problem is that the class is defined in a dependent artifact?</p> <p>pom.xml</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt; &lt;project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt; &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt; &lt;parent&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;xxx.xxxxx.xxx&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;connector&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;1.0-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt; &lt;/parent&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;used the Response.BR_PARTIALLY_OK constant here&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;filter&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;${connector.filter.version}&lt;/version&gt; &lt;dependencies&gt; &lt;dependency&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;defined the Response class in this artifact&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;component&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;1.0-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt; &lt;dependency&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;info.magnolia&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;magnolia-core&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;4.5.4&lt;/version&gt; &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt; &lt;dependency&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;net.sourceforge.openutils&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;openutils-log4j&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;2.0.5&lt;/version&gt; &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt; &lt;dependency&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;servlet-api&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;2.4&lt;/version&gt; &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt; &lt;dependency&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;javax.servlet&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;jsp-api&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;2.0&lt;/version&gt; &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt; &lt;!-- Testing Dependencies --&gt; &lt;dependency&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;org.mockito&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;mockito-all&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;1.9.5&lt;/version&gt; &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt; &lt;dependency&gt; &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt; &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt; &lt;version&gt;${junit.version}&lt;/version&gt; &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt; &lt;/dependency&gt; &lt;/dependencies&gt; &lt;repositories&gt; &lt;repository&gt; &lt;id&gt;magnolia.public&lt;/id&gt; &lt;url&gt;http://nexus.magnolia-cms.com/content/groups/public&lt;/url&gt; &lt;snapshots&gt; &lt;enabled&gt;true&lt;/enabled&gt; &lt;/snapshots&gt; &lt;/repository&gt; &lt;/repositories&gt; &lt;/project&gt; </code></pre>
 

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