maven newbie

[vik ar]

Hi. I have installed maven and configured settings.xml to include <localRepository>C:\mavenRepos</localRepository>. In cmd I type mvn -version and get following

Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 20:16:01+0100)
Java version: 1.6.0_22
Java home: D:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_22\jre
Default locale: en_GB, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows xp" version: "5.1" arch: "x86" Family: "windows"

Now in cmd when I navigate to my eclipse workspace and type mvn archetype:generate I get following

C:\ws>mvn archetype:generate
[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: Connecti
on timed out: connect
[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: 23 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Jan 07 13:33:32 GMT 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/15M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any ideas?

[vik ar]

problem solved. thread closed

[Greg Charles]

Hi Vik,

If you'll post your solution here, I can mark the thread resolved. You never know when someone else might have the same problem, and find your thread in a search.