Netbeans: Transferring Maven Repository index: Central - stuck at 0%

Question

I'm unable to get the Central Maven repo index. I'm running Netbeans 7.0.1 and have tried rebooting my PC, rebooting Netbeans 4 times and alternate mirrors. It sits at 0% and never goes anywhere and never throws an error. I'm unsure what to try or what to investigate to try to determine the problem.

Answer 1

How to Stop Netbeans: Transferring repository index
I see at status bar, that Netbeans is Transferring repository index : java.net repository. It slows down my computer very much. Very annoying.

Solution for Netbeans 7.4 (and possibly later versions, 8.0):
Tools | Options | Java | Maven | Index”, find “Index Update Frequency” and then adjust how often it should be updated (Never :).

Answer 2

From Netbeans Settings Options->Java->Maven you can set the indexing to never. How exactly that relates to 'Completely disable' I'm not sure.

Answer 3

Try to move the local-Repository-path to another place, in the file: conf/settings.xml

<localRepository>D:/mvn_repo</localRepository>

Also check maven's configuration.

Answer 4

Had the same problem myself, it turned out to be the proxy settings (Tools/Options/Proxy settings).