Check your version of commons-lang, mine was version 2.6 used sudo find / | grep commons-lang

add to the dependencies before plugins and ensure id starts with I not i:

<dependency> 
    <groupId>commons-lang</groupId> 
    <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId> 
    <version>2.6</version>
</dependency> 

Does not build as per wiki there is no controller/opendaylight/distribution/opendaylight/target in order to ./run.sh So I am looking for that now ??

Try running the following commands and examine the output:

$ mvn dependency:tree
$ mvn help:effective-pom

Look for commons-lang, maybe something will draw your attention like excludes or dependency overrides. Also, is:

$ mvn dependency:copy-dependencies

copying commons-lang JAR to your target?

Your scope should not be provided unless you're deploying to a host where it will, somehow, already be provided. Use compile instead.

Fixed! I have downloaded manually maven 3.5 under https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi and copied file commons-lang3-3.5.jar to C:\Program Files\NetBeans 8.2\java\maven\lib\. I'm using NetBeans 8.2 with Maven as Plug-In.

Thanks for all replies, i solved it by downloading manually the .jar file from the following link and overwrite the existing jar downloaded by maven. (i don't know why it started working after manual download, but after all, its working)

http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/download_lang.cgi

Adding repository (POM):

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>snapshots</id>
        <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Adding dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
    <version>3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <type>jar</type>
    <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>