Failed to read maven artifact descriptor while building a project

Issue

• Error retrieving dependencies for a kjar

  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: org.eclipse.aether.collection.DependencyCollectionException: Failed to read artifact descriptor [...]
      at org.kie.scanner.MavenRepository.getArtifactDependecies(MavenRepository.java:113)
  ...
  Caused By: org.eclipse.aether.resolution.ArtifactResolutionException: Could not transfer artifact [...] from/to central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/): HTTPS Required (501)
  ...