Question

I have a project POM which specifies a repositories tag which points to a sandbox location.

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>mysandbox</id>
        <name>Sandbox</name>
        <url>http://myTestingSite.com/repositories/sandbox/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

This works fine in Eclipse and resolves all dependencies however when i attempt to deploy i get the following exception.

   [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.5:deploy (default-depl
    oy) on project myweb-web: Deployment failed: repository element was not specified in the POM insid
    e distributionManagement element or in -DaltDeploymentRepository=id::layout::url parameter -> [Help
    1]
    org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plug
    ins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.5:deploy (default-deploy) on project myweb-web: Deployment failed: repos
    itory element was not specified in the POM inside distributionManagement element or in -DaltDeployme
    ntRepository=id::layout::url parameter

Wrapping this in a Distributionmanagement element doesn’t make any sense because I’m using the repository for dependency resolution and not deployment.

Answer 1

The error says you either don’t have a distributionManagement element or the element isn’t correct.

So this has nothing to do with the content of <repositories>. Just create a correct distributionManagement element and it will work.

Note that the broken element might be in the parent POM. Run mvn help:effective-pom to see the complete POM as Maven sees it.