Maven dependency version

Question

When doing a mvn clean install -U I am getting:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project xxx-security: Could not resolve dependencies for project xxx:xxx-security:jar:50-SNAPSHOT: Failed to collect dependencies at
xxx:xxx-persistence:jar:50-SNAPSHOT -> org.mybatis:mybatis:jar:${mybatis.version}: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.mybatis:mybatis:jar:${mybatis.version}: Could not
transfer artifact org.mybatis:mybatis:pom:${mybatis.version} from/to nexus (http://example.net/repository/Standard/): Failed to transfer file: http://example.net/repository/Stan
dard/org/mybatis/mybatis/$%7Bmybatis.version%7D/mybatis-$%7Bmybatis.version%7D.pom. Return code is: 400 , ReasonPhrase:Invalid repository path. -> [Help 1]

What I don't get is why maven is using mybatis.version in the url to get the dependency rather than a version number. I have searched the code and cannot find mybatis.version in there. I did find:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.mybatis</groupId>
   <artifactId>mybatis</artifactId>
   <version>3.0.4</version>
</dependency>

So why is maven using mybatis.version rather than 3.0.4?

Answer 1

It looks like your xxx:xxx-persistence:jar:50-SNAPSHOT jar has internal dependency with org.mybatis:mybatis:jar:${mybatis.version}. Provided that you define mybatis.version in your properties.

You can do following:

1. Execute mvn dependency:tree to check which specific jar has this dependency.
2. Also define <mybatis.version>3.0.4</mybatis.version> under <properties> section of pom.xml. You can optionally remove <version>3.0.4</version> from your <dependency> section where you defined mybatis dependency.