Maven don't recognize a 3rd party dependency from GitHub Packages.

[pinnguino]

Bug description

For my job I need to create a custom Maven library, deploy it to GitHub Packages and use it as a dependency in the pom.xml in my Maven projects.
In IntelliJ IDEA works just fine.

Steps to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Put your credentials in $HOME\.m2\settings.xml and in the maven install location (example: apache-maven\conf\settings.xml)

<servers>
    <server>
      <id>github</id>
      <username>your-github-username</username>
      <password>your-personal-access-token</password>
    </server>
</servers>

2. Add the repository in your Maven project

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>github</id>
            <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/your-github-username/repo-library-location</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

3. Add your dependency in the pom.xml in your project

        <dependency>
            <groupId>your.company</groupId>
            <artifactId>your-library-name</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
        </dependency>

4. Start typing stuff from the library and see that don't recognize it

Expected behavior

When you type content from your library and the autocomplete recognize it.

Environments

• OS: Windows 11
• VS Code version: 1.104.3
• Extension version 0.44.0

[github-actions]

Hi @pinnguino, I'm an AI Support assistant here to help with your issue. While the team reviews your request, I wanted to provide some possible tips and documentation that might help you in the meantime.

Try the following steps to get VS Code’s Java/Maven extensions to pick up your GitHub-hosted artifact:

• Verify settings.xml and pom.xml IDs match

  • In $HOME/.m2/settings.xml (or the one under your Maven home), ensure you have:

    <servers>
      <server>
        <id>github</id>      <!-- must match the <repository><id>…</id> below -->
        <username>YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME</username>
        <password>YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN</password>
      </server>
    </servers>

  • In your project’s pom.xml:

    <repositories>
      <repository>
        <id>github</id>
        <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/REPO_NAME</url>
      </repository>
    </repositories>

• Point VS Code at the right settings.xml and Maven executable:

  1. Open your user or workspace settings.json.
  2. Add:

     "maven.executable.path": "C:/path/to/apache-maven/bin/mvn.cmd",
     "maven.settings.file": "C:/Users/you/.m2/settings.xml"

• Reload and refresh:

  1. Run Developer: Reload Window.
  2. In Command Palette, execute Maven: Update Project on your workspace.
  3. Run Java: Clean the Java language server workspace.

• Confirm the artifact was downloaded to your local repo (~/.m2/repository/your/company/your-library-name/1.0.0/).

Other references with high confidence:

• JavaSE/Maven project - maven’s commons-lang3 dependency not recognized: A user reports VS Code not recognizing a simple 3rd-party Maven dependency. No solution yet, but worth comparing setups: JavaSE/Maven project - maven's commons-lang3 dependency not recognized redhat-developer/vscode-java#906

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