Failed to Read Artifact Descriptor: IntelliJ

Question

I am running into an issue with my Maven POM file where its unable to find spark dependency and is returning with error: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.sp

Answer 1

In my case, it was proxy related problem. I am highlighting few of areas where you may need to verify and correct the same.

1. Intellij proxy settings from preference window
2. maven settings.xml entry from your ~/.m2/settings.xml or /usr/local/Cellar/maven//libexec/conf/settings.xml
3. System proxy

Hope this will help.