Maven fails to find local artifact

Question

Occasionally maven complains that a particular dependency, which is built and packaged locally, cannot be found in the local repository while building another project that h

Answer 1

Even in offline mode, maven will check remote repositories if there is a _remote.repositories marker for the dependency. If you need to operate in offline mode, you may need to delete these files.

The simple shell command below deletes these marker files. This is safe to do if you only use offline mode for the machine. I would NOT do this on a machine that needs to pull files down from the web.

I have used this strategy on a build server that is disconnected from the web. We have to transfer the repository to it, delete the marker files and then run in offline mode.

On Linux / Unix you can delete the remote repository marker files this way:

cd ~/.m2
find . -name "_remote.repositories" -type f -delete