Maven cannot locate dependencies in local repo - maven

Question

I have declared all spring dependencies in a project of type pom and installed it.
My project's pom that uses the common dependencies pom is as follows. But it seems maven is not using/cannot locate the dependencies 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>com.bookme</groupId>
<artifactId>portal</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>portal</name>
<properties>
<endorsed.dir>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</endorsed.dir>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.bookme.common</groupId>
<artifactId>common-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
<compilerArguments>
<endorseddirs>${endorsed.dir}</endorseddirs>
</compilerArguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${endorsed.dir}</outputDirectory>
<silent>true</silent>
<artifactItems>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-endorsed-api</artifactId>
<version>6.0</version>
<type>jar</type>
</artifactItem>
</artifactItems>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong pls?
Thanks

Answer 1

Have you install you dependency pom to you local m2 repository?
Add scope as import to you dependency pom. Look here for more details
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.bookme.common</groupId>
<artifactId>common-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
Consider the following facts also
Do not attempt to import a pom that is defined in a submodule of the
current pom. Attempting to do that will result in the build failing
since it won't be able to locate the pom.
Never declare the pom importing a pom as the parent (or grandparent,
etc) of the target pom. There is no way to resolve the circularity
and an exception will be thrown.
When referring to artifacts whose poms have transitive dependencies
the project will need to specify versions of those artifacts as
managed dependencies. Not doing so will result in a build failure
since the artifact may not have a version specified. (This should be
considered a best practice in any case as it keeps the versions of
artifacts from changing from one build to the next).