“The POM for … is missing, no dependency information available” even though it exists in Maven Repository

Question

Problem:

A dependency will not download even though I copied it from the Maven Repository.

When I hover over the dependency in Eclipse, it w

Answer 1

I had a similar problem quite recently. In my case:

1. I downloaded an artifact from some less popular Maven repo

2. This repo dissappeared over this year

3. Now builds fail, even if I have this artifact and its pom.xml in my local repo

Workaround:

delete .remote.repositories file in your local repo, where this artifact resides. Now the project builds.