Maven: Failed to retrieve plugin descriptor error

Question

I configured Maven 3.0.3 and tried to download a sample project using archetypes with this command:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.graniteds.         


        

Answer 1

I was having exactly the same problem.I went to my IE setting->LAN Settings.Then copied the Address as host and port as the port and it worked. Following is the snapshot of the proxies tag in the Settings.xml that I changed.

  optional
  true
  http
  
  webtitan
  8881