Maven failing to resolve recursive dependencies with multiple repositories

Question

I\'m new to maven so there must be something I don\'t understand. But, I\'ve added multiple repositories to resolve multiple dependencies in my POM file. For some reason i

Answer 1

It looks like you are running Maven 3+ and you are trying to access a legacy repository.

One annoying but well documented change for Maven 3 was removing support for legacy repositories. You can check out this compatibility note and others here

If you are not depending completely on Maven 3 you can reduce to Maven 2.2.1 and this legacy issue should go away or follow what the link says and create a

Maven 2.x compatible view of the legacy repository