hi, everyone, i am a newbie to Maven2. i am here to ask some question about maven. hope some warmhearted friends can help me. i am working on windows and want to use the open source GIS tools like GeoTools and geoserver, these two project are both managed by Maven.Mytrouble is listed below:
1. when i run the sample command of create new project using maven , it always report error like following, how can i fix it ??? d:\>mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId= org.apache.maven.archetypes -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app-DartifactId=my-app [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exi st or no valid version could be found [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: < 1 second [INFO] Finished at: Thu Jul 19 17:35:53 CST 2007 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. i have a unstable Internet connection so that the maven compile process became intolerably boring, before sucess it will failed many times when download dependency packages. can i separately download every JAR and manually install it to my local repository? -- Wir müssen wissen,Wir werden wissen
