I've been following along the WKND tutorial here5 - Custom Component The initial steps with creating the byline component without any of the actual logic works, but after I added the Byline class I get I saw someone who was having a similar issue here Re: Error while deploying custom AEM component B...

Yeah I have<core.wcm.components.version>2.5.0</core.wcm.components.version>and    <dependency>   <groupId>com.adobe.cq</groupId>   <artifactId>core.wcm.components.core</artifactId>   <version>2.5.0</version>   <scope>provided</scope>   </dependency>in my pom.xml but still have the same error

What did you update in your configurations? Are you referring to the pom.xml files?

I have the same issue. Anyone have any ideas? I also used the finished WKND code so it doesn't have to do with the actual Maven setup process.