Unable to migrate 1.1 POM using jar dependency to Maven 2

[Girish Nagaraj]

Hi,

1) I have a maven 1.1 project.xml which uses the JAR option to define the
dependencies
For example:
    <dependency>
      <groupId>mydep</groupId>
      <artifactId>JDBC</artifactId>
      <jar>ojdbc14.jar</jar>
    </dependency>

I tried converting this to Maven2 POM following instructions on the maven
site, but not sure what is the alternative for <jar> ?

2) After this, to start over from scratch, I just picked up the minimal pom
from the site and trying to run mvn site with this POM results in the
following exception

[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin' does not
exist or
 no valid version could be found

I have put-in a settings.xml which has the correct proxy host and port, but
still not able to get the command running even with a -U option.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Girish