The central repo has been undergoing significant load lately, most likely the result of people crawling and attempting to download all 70GB of it. I'd like to point out the availability of additional mirrors that you can use to increase your download performance and reduce the load on central. These mirrors are updated daily right after central pulls in all the new artifacts, so they are as fresh as central. Find the list of mirrors here[1].
Also, for those of you with multiple developers in a single location not using a repo manager, what are you waiting for? There are plenty to choose from and numerous reasons to do so, particularly the ability to isolate yourself from transitive network outages or slowdowns. You can read more about why and the existing repo managers at [2],[3] and a comparison grid here at [4] Also, if you are using a repo manager, make sure to correctly configure it to not make requests to public repositories for your internal artifacts. Otherwise you are making a ton of requests for things that will never be found, increasing the bandwidth usage on your side and ours. Also it gives away potentially sensitive information as someone could scrape the logs and figure out what you're up to internally based on these requests. Nexus lets you configure routing rules so you could exclude com.yourcompany.* from central. Archiva has similar functionality, I'm not sure about Artifactory. Please be a polite repository user. These repos and mirrors are provided free of charge but there is a real cost behind providing this bandwidth. Scraping the entire repository starves other users and increases the cost of providing these repositories to the community. If the mirrors start getting abused then we may find less geographical redundancy as a result. There is never a reason to download the world if you have a repository manager that is caching everything you need locally. [1] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Mirrors+Repositories [2] http://maven.apache.org/repository-management.html [3] http://books.sonatype.com/maven-book/reference/repository-manager.html [4] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Maven+Repository+Manager+Feat ure+Matrix Brian Fox Apache Maven PMC http://blogs.sonatype.com/people/brian
