Re: Downloading Apache Maven Repositories : Proxy Workaround

> Use Nexus as a local proxy/cache. You can download and run it out of the
>  box with no config so it's the easiest and lightest instance to run on a
>  local machine. Just hook up your Maven to it with a mirrorOf central (or
>  *) and run your build ahead of time. This will populate Nexus with all
>  the artifacts you need. You can then clear your local repository to show
>  how Maven downloads the artifacts from "central"
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>  From: Edward Song [mailto:Edward.Song@...]
>  Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:53 PM
>  To: users@...
>  Subject: Downloading Apache Maven Repositories : Proxy Workaround
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>  For demo purposes, I wanted to show the benefits of Apache Maven to a
>  few others.
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>  There is a firewall and proxy over here that will not allow Maven to go
>  get artifacts from the central maven repository and the networking guy
>  will not provide the necessary authentication info to allow Maven to
>  tunnel through the proxy.
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>  Is there a way to get an install of Maven which contains the latest
>  artifact snapshots by default?
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>  Looking for a quick fix.
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>  Thanks in advance.  Ed
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