ClassNotFoundException with Maven dependency system scoped

I am getting ClassNotFoundException and NoClassDefFoundError exceptions when I attempt to run my application using a maven defined dependency.

I added my maven dependency for the jar in question to my pom.xml file with the following declaration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>ldap</groupId>
  <artifactId>com.novell.ldap</artifactId>
  <systemPath>${local.lib.dir}/ldap.jar</systemPath>
  <scope>system</scope>
  <version>1</version>
</dependency>

The jar is correctly added to the Dependencies NetBeans project

But when I deploy the app the dependency is missing

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/novell/ldap/LDAPException