title: Maven will only download a pom, it won't download the jar
body: <p>I am new to maven and I am having what I'm sure is a config issue. I have my master pom and a child jar pom. Inside the jar pom I declared this dependency:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;dependency&gt;  
    &lt;groupId&gt;commons-lang&lt;/groupId&gt;  
    &lt;artifactId&gt;commons-lang&lt;/artifactId&gt;  
    &lt;version&gt;2.4&lt;/version&gt;  
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when I look in my <code>$HOME/.m2/repository</code> dir, only the pom file is there. There is no jar file. Most of the other dependencies have jar files, but not this one. Without this jar, the compile step is failing.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas about what I am doing wrong?</p>