Currently org.jboss.forge.project.dependencies.DependencyResolver only has a option to return a list of dependencies. This results in version range query which requires the repository to have a maven-metadata.xml file. It would be useful to have something like:

public DependencyResource resolveArtifact(Dependency dependency)

This would allow for a specific version to be looked up. It also would have better performance when a dependency version is defined.

Currently using a repository that does not have metadata files does not work. For example http://maven.repository.redhat.com/earlyaccess/all/ cannot be used due to this issue. Which means no EAP dependencies cannot be downloaded from a Forge plugin.