Maven dependencies are failing with a 501 error

Question

Recently Maven build jobs running in Jenkins are failing with the below exception saying that they couldn\'t pull dependencies from Maven Central

Answer 1

If you are using Netbeans older version, you have to make changes in maven to use https over http

Open C:\Program Files\NetBeans8.0.2\java\maven\conf\settings.xml and paste below code in between mirrors tag

maven-mirror
Maven Mirror
https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
central

It will force maven to use https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 url.