Cannot download Maven Resources Plugin when building in Jenkins - maven

Question

I have created Selenium IDE test cases and have tested them in Eclipse. The project is a Maven java project and the tests will run fine in Eclipse however, when I add the project to Jenkins and try to build my project, there is a error and a build failure.
The error:
Started by user anonymous
Building in workspace C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\workspace\Selenium IDE Recon
Parsing POMs
Discovered a new module Test:SeleniumTest SeleniumTest
Modules changed, recalculating dependency graph
[Selenium IDE Recon] $ C:\java/bin/java -cp "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\plugins\maven-plugin\WEB-INF\lib\maven3-agent-1.5.jar;C:\Users\MC44948\Software\springsource\springsource\apache-maven-3.0.4\boot\plexus-classworlds-2.4.jar" org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main C:\Users\MC44948\Software\springsource\springsource\apache-maven-3.0.4 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\war\WEB-INF\lib\remoting-2.45.jar" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\plugins\maven-plugin\WEB-INF\lib\maven3-interceptor-1.5.jar" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\plugins\maven-plugin\WEB-INF\lib\maven3-interceptor-commons-1.5.jar" 53032
<===[JENKINS REMOTING CAPACITY]===>channel started
Executing Maven: -B -f C:\Users\MC44948\Spring_Workspace\Selenium IDE Recon\pom.xml install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building SeleniumTest 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/2.5/maven-resources-plugin-2.5.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.671s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Sep 29 11:46:35 BST 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 4M/8M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Waiting for Jenkins to finish collecting data
[ERROR] Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:jar:2.5: Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:pom:2.5 from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): repo.maven.apache.org: Unknown host repo.maven.apache.org -> [Help 1]
[JENKINS] Archiving C:\Users\MC44948\Spring_Workspace\Selenium IDE Recon\pom.xml to Test/SeleniumTest/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/SeleniumTest-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.pom
[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/PluginResolutionException
channel stopped
Finished: FAILURE
My pom:
<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>Test</groupId>
<artifactId>SeleniumTest</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>SeleniumTest</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.6</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>2.43.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.opera</groupId>
<artifactId>operadriver</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.43.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-server</artifactId>
<version>2.6.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.opera</groupId>
<artifactId>operadriver</artifactId>
<version>0.16</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-remote-driver</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
</project>

Answer 1

This seems to be related to Internet connectivity. Did you notice the error: "Unknown host repo.maven.apache.org"?
Try wget http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/2.5/maven-resources-plugin-2.5.pom and see if you can fetch data.
For more details, you can refer this link.

Answer 2

You can try also this...
My Java project was building successfully when building from command line, but I was getting an error "Unknown host repo.maven.apache.org" when building it with Jenkins.
The problem was is the custom maven settings file which our company was using.
So what you can do is: Under Job configuration, Build section, click "Advanced...".
Set the "Settings file" to "Settings file in filesystem" and give the path to the setting file from your maven installation location. For example
C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.1.1\conf\settings.xml
Set the "Global Settings file" to "Global settings file on filesystem" and give the path to the "${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml".

Answer 3

You might be behind cooperate proxy (or any other proxy\firewall).
Make sure you can access maven central from the slave you're running your build.
If not - configure your http_proxy and https_proxy on your server.