title: Failed to read artifact descriptor in maven project
body: <p>To resolve org.apache.sling.event.jobs,version=[1.5,2] -- Cannot be resolved error in my bundle I added the dependency in the main pom.xml. But when I try to add the same minus the version and scope in the core xml file I am getting a  Failed to collect dependencies error.</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
   &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.sling&lt;/groupId&gt;
   &lt;artifactId&gt;org.apache.sling.event&lt;/artifactId&gt;
   &lt;version&gt;4.2.0&lt;/version&gt;
   &lt;scope&gt;provided&lt;/scope&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>Error is as follows: 
  Failed to collect dependencies at org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.event:jar:4.2.0: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.event:jar:4.2.0: Could not transfer artifact org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.event:pom:4.2.0 from/to cqblueprints.releases (<a href="http://dev.cqblueprints.com/nexus/content/repositories/releases/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dev.cqblueprints.com/nexus/content/repositories/releases/</a>): Connection refused: connect -> [Help 1]
  [ERROR] </p>