Maven repository lookup order

Question

We have an internal Apache Archiva based repository and we have configured the repositories tag in pom.xml to be as follows. Can I assume that all dependency access will get

Answer 1

Maven 3.0 had it fixed as you can see in Maven developer's Jira below. The lookup will be done in the order they are declared.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-4400