java - Maven: Failed to read artifact descriptor

Question

I am hoping someone can help me with a problem I am struggling with.

When I try to build my project from the terminal I get this error:

Failed to read artifact descriptor for com.morrislgn.merchandising.common:test-data-utils:jar:0.3b-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact com.morrislgn.merchandising:merchandising:pom:0.3b-SNAPSHOT

The common.test-data-utils jar is created by a separate project and shared between this and another project (the other project doesn't build either, but that is down to another problem).

I am able to build com.morrislgn.merchandising.common:test-data-utils without issue, I can see the entry it makes in the .m2 local repository on my machine. I have reindexed my repository in Eclipse also.

The POM for my project has this entry:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.morrislgn.merchandising.common</groupId>
    <artifactId>test-data-utils</artifactId>
    <version>0.3b-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Which appears to be correct to me - the POM doesn't report any errors either when it is viewed in Eclipse.

Can some one tell me what I am missing here or doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can always try mvn -U clean install

-U forces a check for updated releases and snapshots on remote repositories.