Why Maven is looking for .pom file when .jar is present in the repository?

Question

I have the following dependency in my pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>aGroup</groupId>
    <artifactId>anArtifact</artifactId>
    <version>aVersion</version>
</dependency>

I also have the anArtifact-aVersion.jar file in ~/.m2/repository/aGroup/anArtifact/aVersion directory.

When I start building the project, maven looks for a .pom file instead of using the .jar file and attempts to download the following

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/aGroup/anArtifact/aVersion/anArtifact-aVersion.pom

How can I configure maven to use the existing .jar file?

Answer 1

POM that is installed to nexus will describe the jar. Used to pull the dependencies that are associated to corresponding jar. When we add the jar as dependency to our project, all the jars required for the included jar will be identified through the corresponding pom.

Answer 2

Run your build using the "-o" switch to use Maven in offline mode. In offline mode, Maven will not check for updates of snapshot dependencies in remote repositories.