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

One of the errors I found around Maven is when I put my settings.xml file in the wrong directory. It has to be in .m2 folder under your user home dir. Check to make sure that is in the right place (along with settings-security.xml if you are using that).