Question

Yes, I know, the subject was asked before, but the repository moved again. Has anybody seen it? I would be much obliged.

Answer 1

A quick search reveals a long list of mirrors, most of them returning 404s but their cache entry is still viewable (for now). So it does seem like the files have been removed at the source, and rather recently too.

Here are a few mirrors that still have the files (for now):

• http://linorg.usp.br/eclipse/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo/
• http://mirror.neu.edu.cn/eclipse/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo/

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Update:

This thread on the eclipselink mailing list reveals something rather bizzare — while the maven.repo directory is not accessible (404), subpaths that resolves to .jar or .pom files will still work!

• This currently fails: http://download.eclipse.org/rt/eclipselink/manen.repo
• But this works: http://download.eclipse.org/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo/org/eclipse/persistence/org.eclipse.persistence.core/2.3.1/org.eclipse.persistence.core-2.3.1.jar

While the relevant files are still accessible, this messes up the mirroring process as well as any workflow that first checks if the repo exists. From the linked thread:

“This of course wreaks havoc on any Nexus or Artifactory repository you may have that proxies the EclipseLink repository, as it will conclude that EclipseLink’s repo is out of service even though strictly speaking it is not. The solution is to turn off any automatic checking of the repository and/or automated blocking of it.”