hard code json-smart version as a temporary workaround #11248

pom.xml

@@ -89,6 +89,15 @@
                 <artifactId>apache-mime4j-dom</artifactId>
                 <version>0.8.7</version>
             </dependency>
+            <!-- We're seeing "Could not find artifact net.minidev:json-smart:jar:2.3"
+            so we're hard coding this transitional dependency to 2.5.2 until
+            https://github.com/netplex/json-smart-v2/issues/240 has been resolved.
+            See also https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/11248 -->
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>net.minidev</groupId>
+                <artifactId>json-smart</artifactId>
+                <version>2.5.2</version>
+            </dependency>
         </dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>
     <!-- Declare any DIRECT dependencies here.