Maven Could not resolve dependencies, artifacts could not be resolved

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This is supposed to be a working project from my friend. He demonstrated the project right in front of me, and then I copied the project, imported it as an existing maven project (I'm using m2eclipse plugin).

And then, this error occurs. This error can be reproduced every time I try to build something with maven.

Doing mvn dependency:tree, dependency:list, or the usual build package, will result in the same error.

The error from running the 'package' build from eclipse is:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]                                                                         
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Jackpot Portal Webapp 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[WARNING] The POM for javax.servlet:com.springsource.javax.servlet:jar:2.5.0 is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The POM for javax.servlet:com.springsource.javax.servlet.jsp.jstl:jar:1.2.0 is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The POM for javax.transaction:com.springsource.javax.transaction:jar:1.1.0 is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The POM for org.slf4j:com.springsource.slf4j.log4j:jar:1.5.6 is missing, no dependency information available
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.963s
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jan 11 01:55:41 WIT 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 2M/56M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project jackpot: Could not resolve dependencies 
for project com.jeteo:jackpot:war:1.0-SNAPSHOT: The following artifacts could 
not be resolved: javax.servlet:com.springsource.javax.servlet:jar:2.5.0,
javax.servlet:com.springsource.javax.servlet.jsp.jstl:jar:1.2.0, 
javax.transaction:com.springsource.javax.transaction:jar:1.1.0, 
org.slf4j:com.springsource.slf4j.log4j:jar:1.5.6: Failure to find 
javax.servlet:com.springsource.javax.servlet:jar:2.5.0 in 
http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release was cached in the 
local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update 
interval of com.springsource.repository.bundles.release has elapsed or 
updates are forced -> [Help 1]

[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException

And here is the content of the pom.xml :

<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.jeteo</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackpot</artifactId>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>Jackpot Portal Webapp</name>
    <url>http://www.jeteo.com</url>
    <properties>
        <java-version>1.6</java-version>
        <org.springframework-version>3.0.3.RELEASE</org.springframework-version>
        <org.hibernate-version>3.6.0.Final</org.hibernate-version>
        <org.aspectj-version>1.6.9</org.aspectj-version>
        <org.slf4j-version>1.5.10</org.slf4j-version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
            <version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
            <version>${org.springframework-version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.8.1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.sf.jt400</groupId>
            <artifactId>jt400</artifactId>
            <version>6.6</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Hibernate -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
            <version>${org.hibernate-version}</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
            <version>${org.hibernate-version}</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!-- AspectJ -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
            <version>${org.aspectj-version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
            <artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId>
            <version>${org.aspectj-version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>com.springsource.javax.servlet</artifactId>
            <version>2.5.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>com.springsource.javax.servlet.jsp.jstl</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <!--
        <dependency>
         <groupId>javax.persistence</groupId>
         <artifactId>com.springsource.javax.persistence</artifactId>
         <version>1.0.0</version>
         <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
            <artifactId>com.springsource.javax.transaction</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.0</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.5.6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>com.springsource.slf4j.log4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.5.6</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
            <version>5.1.11</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>
    <repositories>
        <!-- Spring releases -->
        <repository>
            <id>com.springsource.repository.bundles.release</id>
            <name>Spring Maven Repository Repository</name>
            <url>http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release</url>
        </repository>
        <!-- For hibernate 3.6 support -->
        <repository>
            <id>jboss</id>
            <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <build>
        <finalName>jackpot</finalName>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <url>http://localhost:8080/manager</url>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.6</source>
                    <target>1.6</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

I've tried downloading the newest version of maven, and included it in the eclipse helios, but still the same problem. The same error message happens even when I run it it in the shell command line (outside eclipse).

What am I missing?

Best Answer

Looks like you are missing some Maven repos. Ask for your friend's .m2/settings.xml, and you'll probably want to update the POM to include the repositories there.

--edit: after some quick googling, try adding this to your POM:

<repository>
    <id>com.springsource.repository.bundles.release</id>
    <name>SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository - SpringSource Bundle Releases</name>
    <url>http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release</url>
</repository>
<repository>
    <id>com.springsource.repository.bundles.external</id>
    <name>SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository - External Bundle Releases</name>
    <url>http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external</url>
</repository>