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

When this happened to me, it was because I'd blindly copied my settings.xml from a template and it still had the blank element. This means that there's no local repository used when resolving dependencies (though your installed artifacts do still get put in the default location). When I'd replaced that with ${user.home}\.m2\repository it started working.

For *nix, that would be ${user.home}/.m2/repository, I suppose.