can't add maven dependency - apache poi

Question

I created this maven project in Eclipse on my mac. The following two artifacts are in my pom. No problem on MAC.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
    <artifactId>poi</artifactId>
    <version>3.14</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
    <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
    <version>3.14</version>
</dependency>

However when I recently moved the code to Eclipse on my PC I got this weird error "Missing artifact org.apache.poi:poi:jar:3.14". And it points to both the dependency block and the first line of pom (see screenshot) . Updated project many times and it did not help.

I have set up two repositories, one public and one institutional.

  <repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>JBoss repository</id>
        <url>http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
        <id>central</id>
        <name>repo</name>
        <url>http://risdevtool01p.mdanderson.edu:8081/artifactory/repo</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

When I do "mvn clean install -U", it looks like it is trying to download poi and poi-ooxml from two different repositories.

Downloading:http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/apache/poi/poi-ooxml-schemas/3.14/poi-ooxml-schemas-3.14.jar
Downloading: http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/apache/poi/poi/3.14/poi-3.14.jar
Downloading: http://risdevtool01p.mdanderson.edu:8081/artifactory/repo/org/apache/poi/poi/3.14/poi-3.14.jar
Downloading: http://risdevtool01p.mdanderson.edu:8081/artifactory/repo/org/apache/poi/poi-ooxml-schemas/3.14/poi-ooxml-schemas-3.14.jar

Solution

The problem is in the nexus of JBoss, the artifact is not properly deleted indeed we had the version in the list of available versions but the version is not available at the expected location which is http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/apache/poi/poi/3.14/

404 - Path /org/apache/poi/poi/3.14/ not found in group repository "Public Repository Group" [id=public].

Path /org/apache/poi/poi/3.14/ not found in group repository "Public Repository Group" [id=public].

But, obviously they've just removed this version properly indeed now this version is no more part of the available versions as you can see here http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/apache/poi/poi/ such that if you remove it from your local repository and try again with a command of type mvn clean install, it will work

Comments

[ddd]

I dropped my local repository and it works, but I don't understand why removing local repository would help when some artifacts are not available in the public repository(jboss).

[Nicolas Filotto]

because the repository of JBoss was corrupted, the version of poi was not properly deleted when you tested, now it has been properly removed so by cleaning your local repo, you get everything working properly with no more corrupted artifacts