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 had the same issue in Windows

and it worked since my proxy configuration in settings.xml file was changed

So locate and edit the file inside the \conf folder, for example : C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.2.5\conf

• In my case i had to chage from port 80 to 8080
• If you can´t edit this file that is located inside /program files you can make a copy, edit the file and replace the file located into /program files folder.