This is the part of the stack trace that interests me. I think this is probably an issue where there are no resolveable versions:

at org.jboss.forge.maven.facets.MavenCoreFacetImpl.getFullProjectBuildingResult(MavenCoreFacetImpl.java:149)
        at org.jboss.forge.maven.facets.MavenDependencyFacet.getEffectiveDependencies(MavenDependencyFacet.java:202)
        at org.jboss.forge.maven.facets.MavenDependencyFacet.getEffectiveDependency(MavenDependencyFacet.java:188)
        at org.jboss.forge.shell.project.DependencyInstallerImpl.install(DependencyInstallerImpl.java:62)
        at org.jboss.forge.spec.javaee.BaseJavaEEFacet.install(BaseJavaEEFacet.java:68)
        at org.jboss.forge.spec.javaee.jpa.PersistenceFacetImpl.install(PersistenceFacetImpl.java:92)
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