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I now realize that the jar got placed into my repository, but the pom.xml did not. Now, I have another project where the pom.xml fails to
I had this issue as well and it turned out that we had include/exclude rules set up on the repository I was trying to deploy to and my deployment didn't match those rules.
My solution was to point the deployment at a new repository that had **/* as the include rule (and the pattern from my other repository as an exclude rule to keep them separate).