Error resolving version for plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin' from the repositories ,Plugin not found in any plugin repository

I had the same error, but for the maven-failsafe-plugin.

With the help of a colleague, we got rid of the problem adding the version line to the plugin declaration in the project pom.xml. We added the <version>2.20.1</version> line resulting in the following plugin declaration.

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.20.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <skipTests>false</skipTests>
                    <argLine>-Djava.library.path=${project.parent.basedir}/lib/${arquitecturaMaquina}</argLine>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>integration-test</goal>
                            <goal>verify</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

It is a long working project (over a year) and never had this error. I do not know what triggered it, but all the other answers about resetting the local repository, checking the proxy, etc did not work.

Then we added that version line to the pom.xml and the project built correctly again. Now I removed the line and it is still working. My guess is that it indeed had something to do with some messed up cache of some kind, and that requiring the specific version got rid of the mess and now it is working as before the problem appeared.

Add this to your pom.xml and it should work

<pluginRepositories>
   <pluginRepository> 
    <id>maven2</id> 
    <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/</url> 
  </pluginRepository> 
</pluginRepositories>