The POM for project is missing, no dependency information available

Question

Background

Trying to add a Java library to the local Maven repository using a clean install of Apache Maven 3.1.0, with Java 1.7. Here is how the Java archive file was

Answer 1

Change:

  net.sourceforge
  ant4x
  ${net.sourceforge.ant4x-version}
  provided

To:

  net.sourceforge.ant4x
  ant4x
  ${net.sourceforge.ant4x-version}
  provided

The groupId of net.sourceforge was incorrect. The correct value is net.sourceforge.ant4x.