Cannot compile project with maven

[GreenfishK]

What happened?

I ran mvn clean install and I got a dependency issue that I am sharing with you in the log output below.

Relevant log output

[INFO] Apache cTAKES Temporal Information Extraction ...... FAILURE [30:18 min]
[INFO] Apache cTAKES CoReference Resolver ................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Drug NER ............................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Side Effects ......................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Smoking Status ....................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Mastif Zoner ......................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Assertion's zoner .................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Default Clinical Pipeline ............ SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Template Filler (deprecated) ......... SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Python Bridge to Java ................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Examples ............................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES YTEX ................................. SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES YTEX UIMA ............................ SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Tiny Rest Service .................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES User Resources ....................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Distribution ......................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Regression-test ...................... SKIPPED
[INFO] Apache cTAKES Dockhand ............................. SKIPPED
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  30:42 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2025-09-07T21:22:29+02:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project ctakes-temporal: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.apache.ctakes:ctakes-temporal:jar:7.0.0-SNAPSHOT
[ERROR] dependency: org.clulab:timenorm_2.13:jar:1.0.5 (compile)
[ERROR] 	Could not transfer artifact org.clulab:timenorm_2.13:jar:1.0.5 from/to central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Read timed out
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] -> [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
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command
[ERROR]   mvn <args> -rf :ctakes-temporal

cTAKES.error.log contents

Version

5.1.0

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[seanfinan]

Hi Filip,
I may know what is happening, but I am not certain and even if I've correctly diagnosed the problem I have no solution for you.

The dependency "artifact org.clulab:timenorm_2.13:jar:1.0.5" that is causing the problem "Read timed out" does exist: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/clulab/timenorm_2.13/1.0.5/
If you go to that repository and look at the size of timenorm_2.13-1.0.5.jar you will notice that it is enormous: 635MB. I believe that it includes a large ML model. The author(s) of that timenorm release would need to be consulted. Check the in its pom file https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/clulab/timenorm_2.13/1.0.5/timenorm_2.13-1.0.5.pom

My guess is that your connection is timing out while trying to fetch this single file. If you can find a way to make the connection timeout mechanism more lenient then I would go for that as a possible solution. Otherwise you may just need to keep trying the build until the download is by chance fast enough to complete.

Sean