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I have a fairly simple maven-ized Java project, but am having trouble getting my head around it. My parent module defines a lot of Java classes (and dependencies) that I expect to be useful for several child modules. One of the child modules is dedicated to deploying a web app, so it needs a few extra classes (the servlets) plus everything from the parent module. The file structure looks like this - parent - src - pom.xml - child - src - pom.xml My parent pom looks like this: <project> <groupId>my.group</groupId> <artifactId>parent</artifactId> <version>0.0.1</version> <packaging>pom</packaging> ... <modules> <module>child</module> </modules> </project> And the child looks like this: <project> <artifactId>child</artifactId> <packaging>war</packaging> <parent> <artifactId>parent</artifactId> <groupId>my.group</groupId> <version>0.0.1</version> </parent> ... </project> Is this all I need to have the child know about the classes and dependencies defined in parent? It doesn't seem to be: eclipse gives compile errors, and running mvn clean package from parent folder or child folder results "cannot find symbol" messages any time a class from parent is mentioned. What am I doing wrong?

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