title: Nexus error "Could not find artifact" when the same Nexus displays artifact metadata
body: <p>On the Sonatype.com website I can read the following</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Nexus is a repository manager. It allows you to proxy, collect, and
    manage your dependencies so that you are not constantly juggling a
    collection of JARs. It makes it easy to distribute your software.
    Internally, you configure your build to publish artifacts to Nexus and
    they then become available to other developers. You get the benefits
    of having your own ‘central’, and there is no easier way to
    collaborate.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The part about "constantly juggling a collection of JAR" I find intriguing. </p>
  
  <p>I my experience, this is <em>exactly</em> what the Nexus process looks like. </p>
  
  <p>As an example. My build is failing with message</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project myproject: Could not resolve dependencies for project myproject:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact net.sf.saxon:saxon-dom:jar:9.0 in nexus (https://mynexus:8443/nexus/content/groups/public/) 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So supposedly the Nexus repo at <a href="https://mynexus:8443/nexus/content/groups/public/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mynexus:8443/nexus/content/groups/public/</a> does not contain this artifact.</p>
  
  <p>Using the Nexus web interface I can however search and find this particular artifact. It is located in the <em>Jboss Maven2</em> repo. </p>
  
  <p>What I can also do is navigate the <strong>index</strong> of the <strong>Public Repositories</strong> and find this particular artifact <code>saxon-dom</code> version <code>9.0</code> manually by expanding the tree navigator. It is in the folder <code>net\sf\saxon</code>.</p>
  
  <p>So my conclusion is that Nexus is exactly <strong>not</strong> doing what it is claiming to be doing. It is not helping me manage dependencies - I have to resolve those manually. </p>
  
  <p>What results is exactly like constantly juggling collections of jars. I have to manually download those and put them on the class path in order to perform a build.</p>
  
  <p>As a Repository Manager it does not look very useful.  </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/eaqx2.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/eaqx2.png" alt="enter image description here"></a> </p>