Confluent Maven repository not working?

Question

I need to use the Confluent kafka-avro-serializer Maven artifact. From the official guide I should add this repository to my Maven pom

Answer 1

Just like you I use a company repository (Sonatype Nexus) and was not able to proxy the confluent's repository.

Then I changed my maven settings.xml to exclude confluent form the mirrored repository:

    
        
            nexus
            *,!confluent 
            repository.company.local/nexus/content/groups/public
        
    
    ...
        
            ...
            
                confluent
                http://packages.confluent.io/maven/
            
        

This way, artifacts resolution works for confluents' artifacts as well.

Not as neat as proxying the repo but at least less cumbersome than downloading and registering each dependency manually.