How do you stop maven from trying to access http://repo.maven.apache.org?

Question

The development machine cannot access the internet, and take about 60s to timeout. When I try to build, I see

Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/mave         


        

Answer 1

All pom files inherit from the maven super POM http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.0.4/maven-model-builder/super-pom.html which contains this entry:

    
        central
        Central Repository
        http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
        default
        
            false
        
    

Try setting this in your pom:

    
        central
        http://repo.dev.bloomberg.com/content/groups/public
        
            false
        
    



    
        central
        http://repo.dev.bloomberg.com/content/groups/public
        
            false