> Where is your settings.xml? It must be under ${user.home}/.m2/ My settings.xml is under ${user.home}/.m2/
Here is what I get when I try to execute DMC and then dependency:resolve with DMC pom file. DMC alone : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ java -jar data-management-cli-1.1-beta-4-app.jar ... 0 [main] INFO org.apache.maven.continuum.management.DataManagementCli - Processing Continuum database... Exception in thread "main" org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.MultipleArtifactsNotFoundException: Missing: ---------- 1) org.apache.maven.continuum:data-management-jdo:jar:1.1-beta-4 Try downloading the file manually from the project website. Then, install it using the command: mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.maven.continuum -DartifactId=data-management-jdo \ -Dversion=1.1-beta-4 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file Path to dependency: 1) dummy:dummy:pom:1.0 2) org.apache.maven.continuum:data-management-jdo:jar:1.1-beta-4 ---------- 1 required artifact is missing. for artifact: dummy:dummy:pom:1.0 from the specified remote repositories: central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:305) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:272) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:243) at org.apache.maven.continuum.management.DataManagementCli.downloadArtifact(DataManagementCli.java:304) at org.apache.maven.continuum.management.DataManagementCli.processDatabase(DataManagementCli.java:185) at org.apache.maven.continuum.management.DataManagementCli.main(DataManagementCli.java:158) <= same session, same maven 2, same settings.xml => Then, with DMC pom file : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mvn dependency:resolve [INFO] Scanning for projects... Downloading: http://people.apache.org/builds/maven/continuum/1.1-beta-4/org/apache/maven/continuum/continuum-data-management/1.1-beta-4/continuum-data-management-1.1-beta-4.pom 2K downloaded Downloading: http://people.apache.org/builds/maven/continuum/1.1-beta-4/org/apache/maven/continuum/continuum-parent/1.1-beta-4/continuum-parent-1.1-beta-4.pom 25K downloaded Maven itself finds settings.xml and its configuration. Damien