Question

I’m using eclipse (Springsource toolsuite) and I’m behind a proxy. In eclipse I configured my proxy (ip, username, password) so I can download plugins. Now for maven I also have specify these proxy settings in a settings.xml duplicating the proxy params and exposing my password. Is there a way to get maven use the eclipse proxy settings?

Answer 1

No. Eclipse an Maven work separately.

Your user-level settings for Maven need to be in a settings.xml as Khmarbaise suggested, and you have to place it in a .m2 folder in c:/users/[name]/ directory on Windows 7, or /home directory in linux.

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
  ...
  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>server001</id>
      <username>my_login</username>
      <password>my_password</password>
      <privateKey>${user.home}/.ssh/id_dsa</privateKey>
      <passphrase>some_passphrase</passphrase>
      <filePermissions>664</filePermissions>
      <directoryPermissions>775</directoryPermissions>
      <configuration></configuration>
    </server>
  </servers>
  ...
</settings>

See this page for details: http://maven.apache.org/settings.html