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

Thank it worked...

edit setting.xml

and replace proxy with this

Its working 100%

      
  true
  http
  your username
  password    
  proxy.host.net
  80