maven in 5 min not working

Question

I have downloaded latest

maven 3.0.3, java version \"1.6.0_18\".

mvn –version

Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438;          


        

Answer 1

Clearly this is an issue of proxy. Either use VPN or edit procy setting in setting.xml. I searched lot about this error. Finally, I used VPN(Virtual private network ) to disable the proxy and was able to use cemtral repository of Maven.