Build failure while downloading Archiva Jars with maven - maven

Question

I would like to download Archiva Rest API jars with maven 3 so I can make some Rest API and I always have a build failure. Here is my POM :
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
<artifactId>archiva</artifactId>
<version>1.4-M3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
<artifactId>archiva-rest-api</artifactId>
<version>1.4-M3</version>
</dependency>
I always have this error :
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Remote Deployment 1.0
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/kohsuke/access-modifier-checker/maven-metadata.xml
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/kohsuke/access-modifier-checker/maven-metadata.xml (335 B at 1.6 KB/
sec)
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/kohsuke/stapler/stapler/maven-metadata.xml
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/kohsuke/stapler/stapler/maven-metadata.xml (333 B at 5.1 KB/sec)
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/archiva/archiva/1.4-M3/archiva-1.4-M3.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 5.820s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Nov 07 15:38:03 CET 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 25M/310M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project remote-deployment-new: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.ebiznext
.plugins:remote-deployment-new:hpi:1.0: Could not find artifact org.apache.archiva:archiva:jar:1.4-M3 in central (http:/
/repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) -> [Help 1]
....
How can I resolve that ?
[EDIT] In fact, I am working on a Jenkins plugin where I want this plugin to download some jars in Archiva. For that, I will do some Rest services. This is why I need these dependencies. To make Rest call, on a archiva instances, we must add the archiva-rest-api dependency and a lot more. The thing is it does not download them (archiva-rest-api, jackson, apache cxf). Here is my POM :
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
<version>1.9.9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-xc</artifactId>
<version>1.9.9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
<version>1.9.9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-bundle-jaxrs</artifactId>
<version>2.6.3</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jettison</groupId>
<artifactId>jettison</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<!-- <dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.archiva</groupId>
<artifactId>archiva-rest-api</artifactId>
<version>1.4-M4</version>
</dependency> -->
</dependencies>
<!-- get every artifact through repo.jenkins-ci.org, which proxies all the artifacts that we need -->
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>repo.jenkins-ci.org</id>
<url>http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>repo.jenkins-ci.org</id>
<url>http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/public/</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

Answer 1

Your error is including the first dependency - org.apache.archiva:archiva contains no JAR artifact and Maven is complaining when it can't find it (see the directory listing in Maven central).
Try removing this dependency and trying again.

Answer 2

Maybe have a look here some dependencies are detailed http://archiva.apache.org/docs/1.4-M3/adminguide/webservices/rest.html