Maven fails to pull down latest Selenium Java jar

Question

I'm trying to simply add the latest Selenium 2.44.0 to my project in IntelliJ, for some reason it's happy with 2.42.0 but 2.44.0 errors with

"Dependency '''org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:2.44.0''' not found"

Any ideas what's going on? My POM in its entirety:-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>com.test.testproj</groupId>
<artifactId>twitterati</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>

<dependencies>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
        <artifactId>hamcrest-all</artifactId>
        <version>1.3
        </version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.11</version>
    </dependency>


    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>2.44.0</version>
    </dependency>


</dependencies>

Answer 1

First try running on the command line by forcing an update.

mvn clean install -U

If that fails, try the same after removing your local repository and check the contents of your ~/.m2/settings.xml file and let us know if there is anything in there.

And then if that still fails .. see if you can ping the Maven repository. (repo1.maven.apache.org).