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My Android Maven project pom.xml contains the following entries. Now everything works fine. What is the difference between <repositories> entries and the <pluginRepositories> entries.
<repositories> <repository> <id>my-repo</id> <url>http://10.10.10.230:8081/nexus/content/groups/public</url> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy> </snapshots> </repository> </repositories> <pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>my-repo</id> <name>my-repo</name> <url>http://10.10.10.230:8081/nexus/content/groups/public/</url> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> </snapshots> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> 
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As @otakun85 stated, There is no technical difference at all. It's for having different configurations->behavior for plugins in contrary to normal artifacts.
Repository is a collection of artifacts (eg: jars). You can think of it as a mere storage / cache of various artifacts. Dependency is a situation where your project dependent on another artifact to perform its task (eg: compile, run, unit test)
There are exactly two types of repositories: local and remote: the local repository is a directory on the computer where Maven runs. It caches remote downloads and contains temporary build artifacts that you have not yet released.
In Maven terminology, a repository is a directory where all the project jars, library jar, plugins or any other project specific artifacts are stored and can be used by Maven easily.
As @otakun85 stated, There is no technical difference at all. It's for having different configurations->behavior for plugins in contrary to normal artifacts. See repository vs. pluginRepository for more details.
Also check maven-users mailing list archives, It provides quite good explanation to it.
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