How does Maven2 know where to find plugins?
问题 I'm using Maven2 and I can't seem to find any plugins in my repository. I'm getting errors like repository metadata for: 'org.apache.maven.plugins' could not be found on repository: myrepo where myrepo is the name of my repository. My question is how does Maven know where to find plugins? There's a reference in my error to metadata, what metadata is expected where and what format must it take? I've not had much luck so far looking for documentation... (I'm not interested in the easy answer to