Maven - Unable to resolve dependencies - maven

Question

Im trying to compile a Maven project. The compile fails however due to a "Failure to find xx.xxx.jar" in the repository i have specified in my settings.xml. I have access to this repository and when i navigate to the Url of the repository maven is trying to use i can see a pom file with the name of the jar but no jar. When i open the pom it contains the correct groupid and artificatid and jar name however the jar is not in the same directory.
Maven gives another error saying that "resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of my repo-server has elasped or updated are forced".
What is happening here?
When maven goes to the repo i specify in settings.xml and finds a pom for the jar does it then try and go out to some external site to resolve the dependency or should the jar exist in the same folder as the pom?

Answer 1

What module are you attempting to download?
I discovered something similar with the following Maven central module:
http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails|net.sf.json-lib|json-lib|2.4|jar
The Maven POM packaging declaration was jar, but no jar in Maven called "json-lib-2.4.jar"
When I looked at the files actually stored, I discovered that the author is providing two versions of the jar, each compiled for different versions of the JVM:
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.json-lib</groupId>
<artifactId>json-lib</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<classifier>jdk13</classifier>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.json-lib</groupId>
<artifactId>json-lib</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<classifier>jdk15</classifier>
</dependency>