javax.persistence.Entity doesn't exist

Question

I added the following dependency to Maven:

<dependency>
            <groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>
            <artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.2</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

My IDE recognized javax.persistence, but doesn't recognize javax.persistence.Entity.

Do you know why?

Nausea

Maybe your IDE (whichever it is) doesnt use Maven? Maybe you dont have something in the CLASSPATH? Maybe you provide inadequate info. Maybe the moon is made of cheese ... – Barca

It also fails when I run the code. My IDE is ItelliJ and it uses Maven for sure. I also added a dependency of Spring Boot framework and it succeeded to resolve annotations such as SpringBootApplication, RestController, Autowired, etc. – Nausea

Possible duplicate of Spring Boot: does @Entity Annotation exist? – Barca

Answer 1

believe it or not by "mvn install -U" resolved it.

Nausea