But the proxy is your company proxy. Shouldn't you blame your company for not trusting their employees without the use of a proxy vs maven?
PS. This is all sent from behind my company's proxy where it's probably being flagged for dissention. PPS. Hi network guys. -----Original Message----- From: Barnes, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 2:51 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: RE: new user I have finally figured it out, someone gave me the ip address and port to the proxy server and now everything works find. I still would have liked to been able to download everything in one shot and be up and running without worrying about the proxy server issue but oh..well Thanks For everyone's help. -----Original Message----- From: James Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 2:47 PM To: Maven Users List; Maven Users List Subject: RE: new user I'm not sure if this will help at all but in a few cases where a plugin download failed, I re-ran the same plugin invocation and it succeeded. I'm assuming Maven downloads certain dependencies and then fails to load the next dependencies because of the newly downloaded ones. Hope that helps, James -----Original Message----- From: Alex Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 7/31/2006 2:39 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: new user So far my experience is that the central repository is horribly broken and does not work. Set up a mirror as described in http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-mirror-settings.html That worked for me Alex On 7/31/06, Barnes, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just finished downloading maven 2 and am now trying to create a new > project using the example described on the getting started page. I am > able to execute mvn -version with no problems, however when I attempt to > execute > > > > mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app > > > > I get the following error: > > > > [INFO] Scanning for projects... > > [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. > > [INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins: checking for updates from central > > [WARNING] repository metadata for: 'org.apache.maven.plugins' could not > be retri > > eved from repository: central due to an error: Error transferring file > > [INFO] Repository 'central' will be blacklisted > > [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: 22 seconds > > [INFO] Finished at: Mon Jul 31 12:51:57 EDT 2006 > > [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/2M > > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Based on the above message I would have expected the archtype plugin to > already be downloaded. BTW, I am behind a firewall which uses a policy > file (not sure how to configure this in the proxy section) > > > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > > > Mike > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
