Maven not searching local repository for a JAR

[Graeme Byers]

To mvn compile an Oracle JDBC program I put the JAR in my local repository :

>mvn install:install-file -Dfile={ORACLE_HOME}\jdbc\lib\jdbc6.jar 
                          -Dpackaging=jar 
                          -DgroupId=com.oracle
                          -DartifactId=ojdbc6
                          -Dversion=11.2.0

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
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[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.3.1:install-file (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Installing C:\Documents and Settings\dell\{ORACLE_HOME}\jdbc\lib\ojdbc6.jar to C:\Documents and Settings\dell\.m2\repository\com\oracle\ojdbc6\11.2.0\ojdbc6-11.2.0.jar
[INFO] Installing C:\DOCUME~1\dell\LOCALS~1\Temp\mvninstall96864304070454293.pom to C:\Documents and Settings\dell\.m2\repository\com\oracle\ojdbc6\11.2.0\ojdbc6-11.2.0.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.843s
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Feb 07 14:24:23 GMT 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 2M/15M
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Check and find :

C:\Documents and Settings\dell\.m2\repository\com\oracle\ojdbc6\11.2.0\ _maven.REPOSITORIES
                                                                                     \ ojdbc6-11.2.0.POM

Should I expect to find ojdbc6.jar in this directory ?

ojdbc6-11.2.0.POM
----------------------

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
  <artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
  <version>11.2.0</version>
  <description>POM was created from install:install-file</description>
</project>

My POM :

<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>hr</groupId>
  <artifactId>MavenJSP</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>MavenJSP Maven Webapp</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>                      
       <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>       
       <artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
       <version>11.2.0</version>
     </dependency>

  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <finalName>MavenJSP</finalName>
  </build>
</project>

Compile mvn compile :

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building MavenJSP Maven Webapp 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/oracle/ojdbc6/11.2.0/ojdbc6-11.2.0.jar

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.969s
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Feb 07 14:30:18 GMT 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 2M/15M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[b][ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project MavenJSP: Could not resolve dependencies for project hr:MavenJSP:war:1.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact com.oracle:ojdbc6:jar:11.2.0 in central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) [/b]-> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException

[Peter Johnson]

Part of your post doesn't make sense - the location of the JAR file in the local repository. What is with the "maven.REPOSITORIES" text, and why is the file name on the next line, and what is with all of the spaces?

Given that C:\Documents and Settings\dell\.m2\repository is the location of your local repository, the JAR file, and its POM, should be at:
C:\Documents and Settings\dell\.m2\repository\com\oracle\ojdbc6\11.2.0\ojdbc6-11.2.0.jar
C:\Documents and Settings\dell\.m2\repository\com\oracle\ojdbc6\11.2.0\ojdbc6-11.2.0.pom

Check that both of these files exist.

Looking at you mvn install:install-file command, what is "{ORACLE_HOME}"? Look at line 8 in the install-file output, is that a valid path to the JAR file?