Maven Error - Unable to find repo

[Joe Harry]

I have a strange error when trying to build a Meven project. Here is what I get!

[ERROR] Error resolving version for plugin 'org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin' from the repositories [local (/opt/repo), 
Codehaus Snapshots (https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/codehaus-snapshots), central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)]: 
Plugin not found in any plugin repository -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.plugin.version.PluginVersionResolutionException: Error resolving version for plugin 'org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin' 
from the repositories [local (/opt/repo), Codehaus Snapshots (https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/repositories/codehaus-snapshots), 
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)]: Plugin not found in any plugin repository
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.version.internal.DefaultPluginVersionResolver.selectVersion(DefaultPluginVersionResolver.java:237)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.version.internal.DefaultPluginVersionResolver.resolveFromRepository(DefaultPluginVersionResolver.java:149)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.version.internal.DefaultPluginVersionResolver.resolve(DefaultPluginVersionResolver.java:97)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecyclePluginResolver.resolveMissingPluginVersions(LifecyclePluginResolver.java:90)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.calculateExecutionPlan(DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.java:110)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.calculateExecutionPlan(DefaultLifecycleExecutionPlanCalculator.java:129)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.BuilderCommon.resolveBuildPlan(BuilderCommon.java:92)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:319)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)

[Peter Johnson]

Which version of the tomcat-maven-plugin did you specify? Looks like there are only the 1.0 and 1.1 versions (and an alpha and beta) in Maven Central:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/tomcat-maven-plugin/

[Joe Harry]

Do I have to specify a version? I did as per this document:

http://mojo.codehaus.org/tomcat-maven-plugin/deployment.html

[Joe Harry]

Just added the version tag and got rid of the error. Thanks for the hint!

[Joe Harry]

I now face a series of errors when I tried to compile my project afresh.

[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.10/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/commons-dbcp/commons-dbcp/1.2.2/commons-dbcp-1.2.2.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/commons-lang/commons-lang/2.5/commons-lang-2.5.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.1.1/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/hibernate/hibernate-annotations/3.5.1-Final/hibernate-annotations-3.5.1-Final.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/net/sf/ehcache/ehcache/1.6.2/ehcache-1.6.2.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/hibernate/hibernate-validator/4.0.2.GA/hibernate-validator-4.0.2.GA.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/hibernate/hibernate-entitymanager/3.5.1-Final/hibernate-entitymanager-3.5.1-Final.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/spring-test/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-test-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/spring-context/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-context-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/spring-orm/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-orm-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/spring-beans/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-beans-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/spring-aop/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-aop-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/spring-web/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-web-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/spring-tx/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-tx-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/spring-instrument-tomcat/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-instrument-tomcat-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/security/spring-security-core/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-security-core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/security/spring-security-web/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-security-web-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/security/spring-security-config/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-security-config-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/springframework/security/spring-security-taglibs/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-security-taglibs-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/apache/velocity/com.springsource.org.apache.velocity/1.6.2/com.springsource.org.apache.velocity-1.6.2.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/javax/mail/com.springsource.javax.mail/1.4.1/com.springsource.javax.mail-1.4.1.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/javax/mail/mail/1.4.3/mail-1.4.3.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/apache/lucene/lucene-core/3.0.3/lucene-core-3.0.3.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/apache/tika/tika-parsers/0.8/tika-parsers-0.8.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/log4j/log4j/1.2.14/log4j-1.2.14.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.4/commons-codec-1.4.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/commons-fileupload/commons-fileupload/1.2.1/commons-fileupload-1.2.1.jar; error in opening zip file
[ERROR] error: error reading /opt/repo/org/freemarker/freemarker/2.3.13/freemarker-2.3.13.jar; error in opening zip file
[INFO] 29 errors 

My guess is that I have a wrong repository location specified. Can someone let me know what would be the correct repository location? I have the following defined as the repo location:

     <repositories>

        <repository>  

          <id>Spring Source</id>  

          <url>http://s3browse.springsource.com/browse/repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/</url>  

        </repository>

     </repositories>

Do I have to specify any other location additionally?

[Joe Harry]

Here is another example of the stack trace. It says checksum validation failed.

Downloading: http://s3browse.springsource.com/browse/repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release
/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.10/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.pom
[WARNING] Checksum validation failed, expected <!DOCTYPE but is a0a7c3264534973cbc5f082f5fa577d60dbb83fa for 
http://s3browse.springsource.com/browse/repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.10/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.pom
[WARNING] Checksum validation failed, expected ><!DOCTYPE but is 38181e2379f674617549b778432783014e0e8157 for 
http://s3browse.springsource.com/browse/repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.10/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.pom
Downloaded: http://s3browse.springsource.com/browse/repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/mysql/
mysql-connector-java/5.1.10/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.pom (2 KB at 0.8 KB/sec)
[WARNING] The POM for mysql:mysql-connector-java:jar:5.1.10 is invalid, transitive dependencies (if any) will not be
 available, enable debug logging for more details
Downloading: http://s3browse.springsource.com/browse/repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/junit/junit/4.8.2/junit-4.8.2.pom
[WARNING] Checksum validation failed, expected ><!DOCTYPE but is 75cf9d964c09eeefe60964275bd9d98f3de42491 for 
http://s3browse.springsource.com/browse/repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/junit/junit/4.8.2/junit-4.8.2.pom
[WARNING] Checksum validation failed, expected ><!DOCTYPE but is bd55b5109017b2716ad2b7aac5b70f4ba657eed5 for 
http://s3browse.springsource.com/browse/repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/junit/junit/4.8.2/junit-4.8.2.pom

>

[Joe Harry]

I removed the Spring repository location from my pom.xml and it started downloading the correct jar files from the Maven central repositories.