Thanks Deron,
Yes. I am also using Norton on XP.  I have to let Norton 360 unblock both
mvn.bat and java.exe that mvn use.
Cheers,
Jack

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Deron Eriksson
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Hi Jack,
>
> I think you may be on the right track. I experienced a similar issue after
> installing Norton Internet Security a year or two ago, since Norton's
> firewall was preventing mvn and mvn.bat from contacting the central repo.
> Usually Norton prompts you when it blocks a program, but it didn't in this
> case for me, which made it surprisingly difficult to figure out. I needed
> to
> go into the Norton settings and unblock maven.
>
> In addition, if you're running Windows Vista, you might want to go into the
> Vista firewall settings and see if the solution is in there. Like Norton,
> Windows Vista's firewall normally asks you if you want to block or allow a
> program's communication when it first occurs, but it doesn't always do
> this.
>
> Deron Eriksson
>
>
> Jinyuan Zhou-3 wrote:
> >
> > Got hint from this thread
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg69753.html and I
> am
> > going to look at my fire wall setting.
> > Thanks  and Happy New Year,
> > Jack
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Jinyuan Zhou <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there,
> >> I suddenly cannot run mvn command at one of my home computer. The "root"
> >> cause is that the very 'org.apache.maven.plugins'  cannot be downloaded.
> >> I
> >> know it is not the central repository that has the problem. I was able
> to
> >> run this on other computer at home.  It doesn't seem that  my isp is
> >> blocking me. I m copying the output when I run* mvn -v* and the  comand
> >> from tutorial *mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app
> >> -DartifactId=my-a*pp
> >>
> >
> >
>
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