Apache httpclient library not found

When I try to deploy an application to my Mule standalone server, the application deploys properly but when I try running a flow which uses RestTemplate (spring) and HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory (apache http components) to bypass proxy issues, it gives me the following error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/client/methods/HttpUriRequest

Funny part is, if I run the same exactly mule application in the embedded version, it loads fine. (probably because the libraries are transparently added to the runtime classpath?)

I know I can fix this by putting the httpclient/httpcore libraries inside Mule's endorsed libraries folder, but I fine this pesky having to move library around. I am using maven, so I expect all the libraries to be managed by Maven...

I know the library gets loaded, because mule logs tells me it finds the library.

Here's my pom.xml:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>xxx</groupId>
<artifactId>xxx</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<packaging>mule</packaging>
<name>xxx</name>

<properties>
    <mule.version>3.4.0</mule.version>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>

<dependencies>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mule.tools</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-mule-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.9</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mule</groupId>
        <artifactId>mule-core</artifactId>
        <version>${mule.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mule.transports</groupId>
        <artifactId>mule-transport-vm</artifactId>
        <version>${mule.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mule.transports</groupId>
        <artifactId>mule-transport-http</artifactId>
        <version>${mule.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mule.modules</groupId>
        <artifactId>mule-module-jersey</artifactId>
        <version>${mule.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mule.modules</groupId>
        <artifactId>mule-module-xml</artifactId>
        <version>${mule.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mule.modules</groupId>
        <artifactId>mule-module-scripting</artifactId>
        <version>${mule.version}</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mule.tests</groupId>
        <artifactId>mule-tests-functional</artifactId>
        <version>${mule.version}</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>
        <artifactId>persistence-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
        <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.4</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
        <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
        <version>4.2.5</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
        <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.6</version>
    </dependency>

</dependencies>

<build>
    <defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
    <finalName>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</finalName>
    <pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.4</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
                <artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
                <version>1.0.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <lifecycleMappingMetadata>
                        <pluginExecutions>
                            <pluginExecution>
                                <pluginExecutionFilter>
                                    <groupId>org.mule.tools</groupId>
                                    <artifactId>maven-mule-plugin</artifactId>
                                    <versionRange>[1.9,)</versionRange>
                                    <goals>
                                        <goal>attach-test-resources</goal>
                                        <goal>
                                            filter-resources
                                        </goal>
                                    </goals>
                                </pluginExecutionFilter>
                                <action>
                                    <ignore></ignore>
                                </action>
                            </pluginExecution>
                        </pluginExecutions>
                    </lifecycleMappingMetadata>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.6</source>
                <target>1.6</target>
                <encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.mule.tools</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-mule-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.9</version>
            <extensions>true</extensions>
            <configuration>
                <copyToAppsDirectory>true</copyToAppsDirectory>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>