Question

I have a dependency on Hibernate 3.5.3 which is only available to me from the new JBoss Maven repository is hosted on Sonatype‘s Nexus and all the URLs are secured with HTTPS.

I can access this repository from behind my corporate firewall via the web browser. But Maven is unable to resolve the artifacts.

I see the following warning at the start of the build:

[WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.hibernate:hibernate-core:pom:3.5.3-Final' from repository jboss.org (https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases): Error transferring file: repository.jboss.org

I expected that adding the following the the section of the global settings.xml should have done the trick for me:

<proxy>
    <id>http.proxy</id>
    <active>true</active>
    <protocol>http</protocol>
    <username>me</username>
    <password>private</password>
    <host>proxy.somecompany.com</password>
    <port>80</port>
    <nonProxyHosts>*.somecompany.com</nonProxyHosts>
 </proxy>
<proxy>
    <id>https.proxy</id>
    <active>true</active>
    <protocol>https</protocol>
    <username>me</username>
    <password>private</password>
    <host>proxy.somecompany.com</password>
    <port>80</port> <!-- tried 443 too -->
    <nonProxyHosts>*.somecompany.com</nonProxyHosts>
 </proxy>

But it it doesn’t work for me.

In my pom.xml I have the following repository dependency declared:

 <repository>
     <id>jboss.org</id>
     <name>JBoss Repository</name>
     <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases</url>
 </repository>

I am constrained to using Maven 2.0.8 but I have checked and it doesn’t work on Maven 2.2.1 either.

Answer 1

This was fixed in recent Maven versions (starting 3.0-alpha something, don’t remember the exact issue #). Works in 3.0.3-SNAPSHOT