Oracle SB 12c QuickTip: Resolve NoClassDefFoundError during Maven deployment

While deploying some services to a local DEV environment ( which is the prebuilt OTN SOA 12.1.3 VM ) using Maven Servicebus plugin, the deployment was failing for some reason. But instead of giving me the information about what is wrong with my service implementation, I received a NoClassDefFoundError. In the root cause of the exception stacktrace, it complains that class com/bea/wli/sb/util/DiagnosticLocation could not be found.

[INFO] --- oracle-servicebus-plugin:12.1.3-0-0:deploy (default-deploy) @ LoggingService
[INFO] Service Bus Archive deployed using session Service_Bus_Maven-LoggingService-1472570870357.
weblogic.rjvm.PeerGoneException: ; nested exception is:
weblogic.utils.NestedException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/bea/wli/sb/util/DiagnosticLocation
at weblogic.rjvm.RJVMImpl.gotExceptionReceiving(RJVMImpl.java:1002)
at weblogic.rjvm.ConnectionManager.gotExceptionReceiving(ConnectionManager.java:1099)
at weblogic.rjvm.MsgAbbrevJVMConnection.gotExceptionReceiving(MsgAbbrevJVMConnection.java:527)
at weblogic.rjvm.t3.MuxableSocketT3.hasException(MuxableSocketT3.java:494)
at weblogic.socket.SocketMuxer.deliverExceptionAndCleanup(SocketMuxer.java:837)
at weblogic.socket.SocketMuxer.deliverHasException(SocketMuxer.java:777)
at weblogic.socket.JavaSocketMuxer.processSockets(JavaSocketMuxer.java:368)
at weblogic.socket.SocketReaderRequest.run(SocketReaderRequest.java:30)
at weblogic.work.ExecuteRequestAdapter.execute(ExecuteRequestAdapter.java:21)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:147)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:119)
Caused by: weblogic.utils.NestedException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/bea/wli/sb/util/DiagnosticLocation
at weblogic.rjvm.RJVMImpl.gotExceptionReceiving(RJVMImpl.java:999)
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