Maven looks for jar that isn't present in the repository
<p>I have a repository set up on Artifactory for my Maven projects. I have declared this repo in the <code>&lt;repositories&gt;</code> tag of my settings.xml for one of the projects, I have created a dependency on some other prooject (Say projectA) in my POM for a snapshot version. For this projectA, there is only POM artifact on the Artifactory and not a jar. Still when I compile my POM, Maven tries to download the jar for this project and fails saying it couldn't find it.</p>

<p>I shall paste the exact POM, error, settings.xml and repo view soon. Any idea what could be wrong?</p>