Automatically download missing artifacts if missing in Artifactory - maven

I'm using Jfrog Artifactory to contain artifacts. I'm building with Maven. Is there a way to configure Maven to automatically download missing artifacts, artifacts that are not in the Artifactory repo.
Example:
org.maven.framework-2.5.0 is downloaded from Artifactory since it exists in the Artifactory.
org.maven.anotherframework-2.2.2 doesn't exists in Artifacotry. How to set maven to get from internet?
Is it common to use Artifactory this way?

You should configure Artifactory to fetch missing artifacts from the Internet, not Maven.
Artifactory can (and should) be used as a proxy:
It already comes with set a pre-configured popular remote repositories and you can add new ones.
So, if Maven fails on unresolved dependency, find a repository that has it, add it to Artifactory as remote repository, retry the build. If you can't find any repository that has it, you can upload the jar directly to Artifactory and retry the build.

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Integrate the local maven plugin with remote repository

I have created a simple maven plugin and installed it in my local repo(.m2). Now I want to use that plugin with a git repo(maven project). How can I do that?
Currently, I am trying to build my git repo using Jenkins and it throws below error-
[ERROR] Plugin sample.plugin:hello-maven-plugin:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Could not find artifact sample.plugin:hello-maven-plugin:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
I believe simply changing the pom file of my git repo won't work. What should I do so that it resolves the plugin dependency by looking into the .m2 dir first
Your Jenkins probably deploys to a Nexus or Artifactory server. That server is also the right place to manage your plugin.

tell maven to get JAR dependency from given URL

Unfortunately, my project has an external dependency that was never published to any Maven repository. The only way I can get it is by direct download from github (they pushed the binary to github).
One (bad) way is to download the jar manually and commit/push it to my code repository (git). It wouldn't help me to manually deploy this artifact in my local binary repository because I share this project with external contributors that cannot access my private binary repo.
I wonder if maven has a better way to handle this? (Given that I can't upload the artifact to my repo or public repo).
I know that npm allows getting some dependencies from URL. Does maven support it as well?
AFAIK there is no nice way to handle this. You could
Write a script that downloads the jar and installs it in your local Maven repository. This script could be shared through your code repository.
Include downloading and installing the artifact into the Maven build process (by writing a Maven plugin or using the antrun plugin)
Set up a nexus in the cloud that everyone in your team can access.

Maven repository usage to download artifacts

I have added a repository to download artifacts and I have seen maven using that repository to download artifacts, but only for particular artifacts of that repository maven tries to download from mvn central repository. When I chek that artifact on added repository it's available. What could be the issue ? In which situations maven tries to download from central repository ?
Specific issues is highlighted in ,
Magnolia Demo project mvn build failed due to not able to fetch magnolia-setproperty-maven-plugin
All the Maven dependencies are first downloaded from your local repository, then if they are not found, Maven will try in any remote repository that you define in your POM file or the settings.xml and for last it will try to download from Maven Central.

Does the maven central repo need to be added to %USER%/.m2/settings.xml?

I'm trying to build a project with maven and I have a repository I'm pulling packages from which I've configured in the %USER%/.m2/settings.xml file. The problem is it's pulling the packages from that repository but not from the maven central repository.
My question is if I create a settings.xml file and add my own repository to it, do I then also need the maven central repo?
It's possible to configure Maven to retrieve from both a private Maven repository manager (Like Nexus, Artifactory or Achiva) and also download from Maven Central.
Personally I prefer to confgure my Maven repository manager to proxy Maven Central. Within Nexus I create a repository group that combines the Maven Central Proxy with my hosted repositories. In this way a single URL gives me all my project dependencies. This simplifies Maven client configuration.

maven could not resolve dependency via my local nexus repository

I have setup an in-house Sonatype Nexus repository and configure the maven to check my local Nexus instead of getting artifacts directly from public repositories.
http://www.sonatype.com/books/nexus-book/reference/config-sect-intro.html
Our project was able to download the most artifacts except one artifact in Maven central.
Here is the build error:
Failed to execute goal on project shindig-gadgets: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.apache.shindig:shindig-gadgets:jar:3.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact com.ibm.icu:icu4j:jar:4.6 in nexus (http://my_nexus_repository:8081/nexus/content/groups/public) -> [Help 1]
I see that icu4j-4.6.jar does exist in the Maven central repository. On my local nexus repository, it doesn't exist. I see only icu4j-4.6.pom exists on my local nexus repository.
It's not like my nexus repository setting is totally broken. maven project has successfully downloaded numerous jar files from multiple public repositories via my local nexus maven repository except icu4j-4.6.jar.
I don't understand why I'm having a problem with only icu4j-4.6.jar. Would it be incorrectly cached on either my local maven or nexus maven repository?
If it was incorrectly cached, how can I clean the local maven or nexus maven repository?
The similar problem is described at
Missing maven dependency using nexus setup
icu4j-4.6.jar does not show up in the search list. Only icu4j-4.6.pom shows up in the search list. I don't think is Snapshot VS Release issue because icu4j-4.6.jar seems release jar.
Is it possible that the nexus repo just stopped responding for a while? You can try mvn -X (or -d?) to get detailed info about what is going on. You might also try configuring an alternative repo.
Perhaps you haven't enabled remote index downloads from Maven Central. This would explain why only the POM file appears in your local search (The only file which has been downloaded via the proxy repo).
There might be another issue causing the download failure for the jar itself.... I suppose try and solve one problem at a time :-)
Try adding -U to your mvn arguments to force an update of your local repository.
You could also have corrupt meta data in the repo. In which case, delete that artifact from the repo's cache and let it refresh.
If the artifact in question was cached in properly from the proxy repository, using mvn -U will fix the problem
However if you are seeing pom on your nexus ,this usually happens when the artifact from the proxy repository is not cached in properly. The way to fix is
1) Browse to the component in the Proxy Repository.
2) Invalidate the cache for the repository and reindex the Nexus repository.
3) run mvn clean -U

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