Maven “Missing indirectly referenced artifact”

I recently got an Maven error something like “Missing indirectly referenced artifact javax.transaction:jta:jar:1.0.1B:compile”. I fixed it by adding an extra repository in my pom.xml

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</build>

<repositories>

<repository>

<!– For jta jar –>

<id>maven2-repository.dev.java.net</id>

<name>Java.net Repository for Maven</name>

<url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url&gt;

<layout>default</layout>

<snapshots>

<enabled>false</enabled>

</snapshots>

<releases>

<enabled>true</enabled>

</releases>

</repository>

</repositories>

<dependencies>

...