"cannot find symbol DynamicPropertyFactory" while building eureka-examples with Maven

[Fabrizio Cucci]

Hello everyone,

I'm posting the following question to understand if this is an expected behavior, a misconfiguration on my side or something else.

Starting from https://github.com/Netflix/eureka/tree/master/eureka-examples I've created two Maven project:
1) eureka-client (which contains just the class ExampleEurekaClient.java)
2) eureka-service (which contains just the classes ExampleEurekaService.java and ExampleServiceBase.java)

The pom of both projects is (except for the artifactId):

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>my.eureka.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>client</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.netflix.eureka</groupId>
            <artifactId>eureka-client</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.5</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

</project>

When I try to build the projects using "mvn clean package" I get the following error:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on project client: Compilation failure: Compilation failure:
[ERROR] /.../ExampleEurekaClient.java:[13,26] package com.netflix.config does not exist
[ERROR] /.../ExampleEurekaClient.java:[19,30] cannot find symbol
[ERROR] symbol:   class DynamicPropertyFactory
[ERROR] location: class eureka.client.ExampleEurekaClient
[ERROR] /.../ExampleEurekaClient.java:[19,88] package com.netflix.config does not exist

If I simply change the pom forcing the archaius-core transitive dependency to have scope compile:

    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.netflix.archaius</groupId>
                <artifactId>archaius-core</artifactId>
                <version>0.7.3</version>
                <scope>compile</scope>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>

everything works fine.

I understand that the eureka project uses Gradle as dependency management tool but is the previous scenario something expected?

Thanks,
Fabrizio

[Nova Guy]

Any update on your issue, I too am having similar issue. Thanks