how to prevent maven from checking foreign repositories?

Question

When I build using maven I see it checking all sort of foreign repositories for artifacts which only my local build should produce. How can I tell it that the com.myorg group c

Answer 1

If the remote repositories that you are using are release repositories and do actually not contain any SNAPSHOT, they you can disable SNAPSHOT for them and Maven won't check them for SNAPSHOT updates. For example:

  
    java.net
    http://download.java.net/maven/2
    
      false
    
  
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