Maven Settings for multiple repositories

Question

I have the following in settings.xml

       
          paid-jars         


        

Answer 1

It's impossible to specify a dedicated repository to look up an artifact. Maven will look up all configured repositories one by one until the artifact is found. Just add both the central mirror and internal repository to the settings.xml and it will be okay.

Read Maven guide to setup multiple repositories. In respect to the order of repositories, see this answer.