Maven error sign wihout reason, Failed to collect dependencies

[Zoltaan Szabo]

Hi All,

The following problem happened: once i opened Eclipe, all the procects were signed with a red X. Opening the projet tree, there was no error sign in the nodes. Nothig showed me what caused the errors. I could not build the projects. Finally i created a new workspace for Eclipse, checked out the projects from SVN, imported them as Maven projects. (There were two main and several child projects.)
Ther are still two projects showing the red X but not showing what causes the errors. I have tried to refresh, clean in Eclipse. I cannot build the other projects without error either, of course also not the ones with errors. The error message is e.g.:

[WARNING] Some problems were encountered while building the effective model for hu.bz.ikti.insurance:SAMCommon:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin is missing. @ hu.bz.ikti.insurance:InSurance:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT, C:\Dev\workspace\InSurance\pom.xml, line 27, column 12
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] It is highly recommended to fix these problems because they threaten the stability of your build.
[WARNING] 
[WARNING] For this reason, future Maven versions might no longer support building such malformed projects.
[WARNING] 
[INFO]                                                                         
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building SAM-függő közös osztályok 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[WARNING] The POM for hu.bz.ikti:common:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT is missing, no dependency information available
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.110s
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Jul 12 11:33:33 CEST 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 4M/114M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project SAMCommon: Could not resolve dependencies for project hu.bz.ikti.insurance:SAMCommon:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact hu.bz.ikti:common:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT -> [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.

And for the erroneus project part of the message is:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project Service: Could not resolve dependencies for project hu.bz.ikti.insurance:Service:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT: Failed to collect dependencies for [org.springframework:spring-context:jar:3.1.2.RELEASE (compile), org.springframework:spring-core:jar:3.1.2.RELEASE (compile), org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:3.1.2.RELEASE (compile), commons-dbcp:commons-dbcp:jar:1.4 (compile), postgresql:postgresql:jar:9.1-901-1.jdbc4 (compile), org.springframework:spring-tx:jar:3.1.2.RELEASE (compile), hu.bz.ikti.insurance:Model:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT (compile), org.springframework:spring-orm:jar:3.1.2.RELEASE (compile), hu.bz.ikti:service-base:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT (compile), org.springframework:spring-test:jar:3.1.2.RELEASE (compile), org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:jar:3.1 (compile)]: Failed to read artifact descriptor for hu.bz.ikti.insurance:Model:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT: Could not transfer artifact hu.bz.ikti.insurance:Model:pom:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT from/to ikti (https://fcd3.ikti.hu/artifactory/ext-release-local): Failed to transfer https://fcd3.ikti.hu/artifactory/ext-release-local/hu/bz/ikti/insurance/Model/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/Model-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pom. Error code 409, The repository 'ext-release-local' rejected the artifact 'ext-release-local:hu/bz/ikti/insurance/Model/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/Model-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pom' due to its snapshot/release handling policy. -> [Help 1]

Could please anyone help me to find a solution?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

The first thing to try is to see if running Maven > update project configuration and Maven > update dependencies using the Maven Eclipse plugin to make sure you don't have stale metadata. Also, run > install to ensure you get the same error. I think you will, but it is good to rule those out.

The error message talks about two things. One is not finding the dependencies and the other is not being able to release. Since some of the dependencies are SNAPSHOTs, it doesn't make sense to be doing a release. Do you know why the project is using ext-release-local as the repository?

[Zoltaan Szabo]

Hi,

Thanks for your advice. I run Maven/update for all projects. I do not know how to update dependencies? I run clean compile. There was again a failure, with clean istall too.
How do you mean: "Since some of the dependencies are SNAPSHOTs, it doesn't make sense to be doing a release. Do you know why the project is using ext-release-local as the repository? "? Here are several projects in the workpace referencing other ones.

[Zoltaan Szabo]

Hi,

All my Maven projects are snapshots. I do knot know why Maven wants to compile them to the release repository. How can i set it?
I also noticed that settings.xml under .m2 folder does not exist. Something really went wrong with Maven.

[Peter Johnson]

There is no default settings.xml file in the .m2 directory, but you can always create one.

You can specify the remote repository for a "deploy" by adding a <distributionManagement> section to your pom.xml:

 <distributionManagement>
    <snapshotRepository>
      <id>anyNameYouGiveHere</id>
      <url>http://hostname/path/to/snapshot/repo</url>
    </snapshotRepository>
  </distributionManagement>

[Zoltaan Szabo]

Hi,
i have a <distributionManagement> section in the main project pom.xml:
<distributionManagement> <repository> <id>http://fdc7.xxx.hu</id> <name>http://fdc7.xxx.hu-releases</name> <url>http://fdc7.xxx.hu:8081/artifactory/libs-release-local</url> </repository> <snapshotRepository> <id>http://fdc7.xxx.hu</id> <name>http://fdc7.xxx.hu-snapshots</name> <url>http://fdc7.xxx.hu:8081/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local</url> </snapshotRepository> </distributionManagement>

[Zoltaan Szabo]

Hi All,

My problem has resolved.
There was some problem with our repository. I deleted the reference to this. After that i was able to compile all projects.