Desde a versão 2.0, o Apache Spark vem com uma pasta "jars" cheia de arquivos .jar. Obviamente, o Maven fará o download de todos esses frascos ao emitir:

mvn -e package

porque, para enviar uma inscrição com

spark-submit --class DataFetch target/DataFetch-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

aDataFetch-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar é preciso.

Portanto, a primeira pergunta é direta: como posso tirar proveito desses frascos existentes? A segunda pergunta está relacionada, filho, eu tentei pela primeira vez com o Maven baixar os frascos, e obtive a seguinte saída:

[INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building "DataFetch" 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) @DataFetch ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory     /root/sparkTests/scalaScripts/DataFetch/src/main/resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.0:compile (default-compile) @ DataFetch -    --
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:testResources (default-testResources) @ DataFetch ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory/root/sparkTests/scalaScripts/DataFetch/src/test/resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.0:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ DataFetch ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test (default-test) @ DataFetch ---
[INFO] No tests to run.
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /root/sparkTests/scalaScripts/DataFetch/target/surefire-reports

-------------------------------------------------------
 T E S T S
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Results :

Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-jar-plugin:2.3.2:jar (default-jar) @ DataFetch---
[WARNING] JAR will be empty - no content was marked for inclusion!
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.294s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Sep 28 17:41:29 PYT 2016
[INFO] Final Memory: 14M/71M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

E aqui está o meu arquivo pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>com.spark.pg</groupId>
  <artifactId>DataFetch</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <name>"DataFetch"</name>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
            <artifactId>spark-core_2.11</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

     <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.0</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>  

</project>

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