Dependencies added to POM.xml file do not show under Maven Dependencies

Question

I added the following dependency to my POM.xml file but they do not show up under Maven Dependencies

<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>

<version>1.2.5</version>

<type>pom</type>

<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>

<version>1.2.5</version>

<type>pom</type>

Answer 1

If you look at the contents of the pom you'll see why there is no jar file:

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/info/cukes/cucumber-java/1.2.6/cucumber-java-1.2.6.pom

<project 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>
<parent>
  <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
  <artifactId>cucumber-jvm</artifactId>
  <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
  <version>1.2.6</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>Cucumber-JVM: Java</name>
  <distributionManagement>
    <relocation>
    <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
  </relocation>
</distributionManagement>
</project>

And then looking at io.cucumber:

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/cucumber/cucumber-java/1.2.6/

io/cucumber/cucumber-java/1.2.6

../
cucumber-java-1.2.6-javadoc.jar                   2019-11-09 17:48   1262464      
cucumber-java-1.2.6-javadoc.jar.asc               2019-11-09 17:48       488      
cucumber-java-1.2.6-javadoc.jar.md5               2019-11-09 17:48        32      
cucumber-java-1.2.6-javadoc.jar.sha1              2019-11-09 17:48        40      
cucumber-java-1.2.6-sources.jar                   2019-11-09 17:48    222976      
cucumber-java-1.2.6-sources.jar.asc               2019-11-09 17:48       488      
cucumber-java-1.2.6-sources.jar.md5               2019-11-09 17:48        32      
cucumber-java-1.2.6-sources.jar.sha1              2019-11-09 17:48        40      
cucumber-java-1.2.6.jar                           2019-11-09 17:48    238287      
cucumber-java-1.2.6.jar.asc                       2019-11-09 17:48       488      
cucumber-java-1.2.6.jar.md5                       2019-11-09 17:48        32      
cucumber-java-1.2.6.jar.sha1                      2019-11-09 17:48        40      
cucumber-java-1.2.6.pom                           2019-11-09 17:48      6052      
cucumber-java-1.2.6.pom.asc                       2019-11-09 17:48       488      
cucumber-java-1.2.6.pom.md5                       2019-11-09 17:48        32      
cucumber-java-1.2.6.pom.sha1                      2019-11-09 17:48        40     

Answer 2

If you set the type to pom, you do not import the JAR, but only the dependencies inside the POM you reference.

If you want to use the JARs, you need to change the type to jar.