Maven - Failed to resolve artifact - cglib:cglib-nodep:jar:null

Question

I'm trying to build a large project and failing with the following error:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Utilities
[INFO]    task-segment: [install]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [resources:resources]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1255 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 16 resources
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.

Couldn't find a version in [2.2.2] to match range [2.1_3,2.1_3]
  cglib:cglib-nodep:jar:null

from the specified remote repositories:
  java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/2),
  internal (http://repo.some-project.org/maven),
  central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)

Path to dependency:
        1) org.some-project:util:jar:1.5.0

I found and downloaded cglib-nodep-2.1_3.jar
As I lack experience with maven, I'm not sure how to (hrr...) make the build process use this file instead of failing on (I guess) fetching it from the internet.

Answer 1

cglib version 2.1_3 has been removed from the main maven repo in favor of 2.2.2
Try updating your dependency to 2.2.2 - who knows, perhaps it'll work :)
If it doesn't, download 2.1_3 (from here for example) and manually install it locally.

Answer 2

It is working if you put in the dependencyManagement section, instead of putting it in the dependencies section.

<dependencyManagement>
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>     
        <groupId>cglib</groupId>     
        <artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>     
        <version>2.1_2</version> 
      </dependency>     
   </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

All the versions are working. I was getting the same error when I had put it in the dependencies section instead of dependencyManagement section. You need not do it manually.

Answer 3

In your pom.xml under the dependencyManagement section add:

<project>
 ...
 <dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
  ...
   <dependency>
    <groupId>cglib</groupId>
    <artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>
    <version>2.1_3</version>
    </dependency>
  ....