Maven is failing to download the tomcat-maven-plugin snapshot

Question

Even after wiping out my settings.xml, I still get this error when trying to use this snapshot dependency. Given the dependency:

Answer 1

Not sure exactly, but looks like they might be using some form of the "buildnumber" maven plugin to include version control revision numbers.

Take a look at http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org//org/codehaus/mojo/tomcat-maven-plugin/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml and you'll notice that in addition to the normal stuff, theres a xml tag for buildnumber and timestamp.

This may not be ideal, but you might be able to replace:

1.0-SNAPSHOT

with:

1.0-20091222.232027-11

To at least get up and running with the latest version of the plugin.