I'm trying to run the picketlink quickstarts from:
https://github.com/jboss-developer/jboss-picketlink-quickstarts
More specifically:
But in each attempt to install the maven dependencies I get the next error:
Could not find artifact org.picketlink.distribution:picketlink-jbas7:jar:2.8.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT
Here is the whole log after my $ mvn clean package jboss-as:deploy
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building PicketLink Quickstart: picketlink-federation-saml-idp-basic 2.8.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[WARNING] The POM for org.picketlink.distribution:picketlink-jbas7:jar:2.8.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT is missing, no dependency information available
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.650 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2015-10-17T01:39:15-05:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 6M/80M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project picketlink-federation-saml-idp-basic: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.picketlink.quickstarts:picketlink-federation-saml-idp-basic:war:2.8.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact org.picketlink.distribution:picketlink-jbas7:jar:2.8.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException
I've seen that you might need to add a settings.xml to your maven folder, but I don't know how to make or what to put in that file.
As you already said, maven is telling you that org.picketlink.distribution:picketlink-jbas7:jar:2.8.0.Beta1-SNAPSHOT dependency is missing and I believe this is because you didn't install it previously.
As I can see jboss-picketlink-quickstarts is a bunch of projects which have a parent pom.xml where you can find your project as a module:
<module>picketlink-federation-saml-idp-basic</module>
So, you have to clone the whole jboss-picketlink-quickstarts project and run mvn install from the parent project.
This will lead you with all dependencies that you will need resolved into your local maven repository (usually ~/.m2/repository).
Try it, it will solve your dependency. Some times you have to call maven with -U to force -SNAPSHOT dependencies.
Hope it helps!