com.itextpdf:book:war:5.3.1-SNAPSHOT: The following artifacts could not be resolved:

Question

I work on this demo project http://itextpdf.com/download.php when i try to build my api i have this error message (dependencies).

Failed to execute goal on project book: Could not resolve dependencies for project   
com.itextpdf:book:war:5.3.1-SNAPSHOT: 
The following artifacts could not be resolved: 
com.itextpdf:itextpdf:jar:5.3.1-SNAPSHOT, 
com.itextpdf:itext-xtra:jar:5.3.1-SNAPSHOT, 
com.itextpdf:itext-pdfa:jar:5.3.1-SNAPSHOT, 
itext-pdfa:com.itextpdf:jar:5.3.1-SNAPSHOT: 
Could not find artifact com.itextpdf:itextpdf:jar:5.3.1-SNAPSHOT -> [Help 1]

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[Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException

Answer 1

Since this is a SNAPSHOT version, it may not be available for download. You could use the 5.3.0 version which is available from maven central.