Reinhard Poetz wrote: > I think the general problem is that you need to have downloaded the > artifacts once as Maven have to put them into the local artifacts > repository. Indeed, this can take very long if Maven is used for the > first them. But then, it should work fine in the future as further > downloads are the exception and not the rule.
while this is certainly true, i've seen maven fail a number of times because it was just contacting cvs.a.o to see if a new version of the snapshot was available. I will do some experimenting with the download policies of the repo configuration [1], maybe this will help. Regards Jorg [1] http://maven.apache.org/ref/2.0.3-SNAPSHOT/maven-model/maven.html#class_repository
