Could not find artifact in maven central repo when search returns a match

Question

I am attempting to introduce a dependency on the castor library in my pom. Since my project is at a preliminary stage, all artifacts are from maven central. So I search in s

Answer 1

The problem you have is that the artifact which you have defined as a dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.castor</groupId>
    <artifactId>castor</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.3</version>
</dependency>

defines a jar artifact as the error messages implies: org.codehaus.castor:castor:jar:1.3.3

The problem is that on Maven Central this kind of artifact does not exist. It only exist a pom file but not a jar file.