Tried building Commons Exec using Java 5, and it fails almost immediately with
>>> Downloading: https://archiva-repository.apache.org/archiva/repository/all-public//org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-release-plugin/2.0/maven-release-plugin-2.0.pom [WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:pom:2.0' from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Error transferring file: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: https://archiva-repository.apache.org/archiva/repository/all-public/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-release-plugin/2.0/maven-release-plugin-2.0.pom Downloading: https://archiva-repository.apache.org/archiva/repository/all-public//org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-release-plugin/2.0/maven-release-plugin-2.0.pom [WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:pom:2.0' from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Error transferring file: Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: https://archiva-repository.apache.org/archiva/repository/all-public/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-release-plugin/2.0/maven-release-plugin-2.0.pom [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin Reason: POM 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin' not found in repository: Unable to download the artifact from any repository org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:pom:2.0 from the specified remote repositories: apache.snapshots (http://repository.apache.org/snapshots), archiva (https://archiva-repository.apache.org/archiva/repository/all-public/) for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin <<< This does not happen with the Maven 3/Java 6 build. Looks like https://archiva-repository.apache.org/ is not currently available. However, I'm not sure why that should be used?
