It CAN be done, we wanted to do the same thing as you, here is how we did it. 1. Edit Settings.xml add -
<localRepository>c:/devtools/repository</localRepository> If you dont specify this all files would be downloaded to ~/repository. We didnt want that. We wanted a single repo for all files. 2. In your pom file add the following - Note the repository named "central" this is the "central ibiblio" that we are overwriting. If you want to download additional jar remove this repo. <repositories> <repository> <id>central</id> <url>file://c:\devtools\repository</url> </repository> </repositories> <pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <releases /> <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots> <id>central</id> <url>file://c:\devtools\repository</url> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> 3. One drawback I havent figured out yet is that now I manually have to specify all the Maven plugins in my pom. Like this. <build> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.1</version> </plugin> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.1</version> </plugin> ... </build> Hope this helps Magnus
