0. Check the maven repositiory server is up 1. Check Proxy is set up and working First I thought it was a proxy problem, I made sure that maven settings.xml contained the proxy settings (settings.xml can exist in two places one in MAVEN_HOME. The other in %userprofile%.m2\ with the later having higher precedence): optional true http optional-proxyuser optional-proxypass proxy.host.net 80 local.n..