Repositories specified in pom.xml are not used by maven?

Question

I am compiling HBase using Maven3.

The pom from github https://github.com/cloudera/hbase/blob/cdh4-0.94.2_4.2.1/pom.xml specified some repositories to provide some external jars. But maven 3 doesn't look for jars from these repositories and just throws exception says the jar is not found from mirror.

Here is the repositories from pom.

  <repositories> <repository>   <id>cdh.repo</id>   <url>https://repository.cloudera.com/artifactory/cloudera-repos</url>   <name>Cloudera Repositories</name>   <snapshots>     <enabled>false</enabled>   </snapshots> </repository>  <repository>   <id>cdh.snapshots.repo</id>   <url>https://repository.cloudera.com/artifactory/libs-snapshot-local</url>   <name>Cloudera Snapshots Repository</name>   <snapshots>     <enabled>true</enabled>   </snapshots>   <releases>     <enabled>false</enabled>   </releases> </repository> <repository>   <id>apache release</id>   <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases/</url> </repository> <repository>   <id>apache non-releases</id>   <name>Apache non-releases</name>   <url>http://people.apache.org/~stack/m2/repository</url>   <snapshots>     <enabled>false</enabled>   </snapshots>   <releases>     <enabled>true</enabled>   </releases> </repository> <repository>   <id>java.net</id>   <name>Java.Net</name>   <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>   <snapshots>     <enabled>false</enabled>   </snapshots>   <releases>     <enabled>true</enabled>   </releases> </repository> <repository>   <id>codehaus</id>   <name>Codehaus Public</name>   <url>http://repository.codehaus.org/</url>   <snapshots>     <enabled>false</enabled>   </snapshots>   <releases>     <enabled>true</enabled>   </releases> </repository> <repository>   <id>repository.jboss.org</id>   <url>http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/</url>   <snapshots>     <enabled>false</enabled>   </snapshots> </repository> <repository>   <id>ghelmling.testing</id>   <name>Gary Helmling test repo</name>   <url>http://people.apache.org/~garyh/mvn/</url>   <snapshots>     <enabled>true</enabled>   </snapshots>   <releases>     <enabled>true</enabled>   </releases> </repository> 

-----------------------updated 2013-11-28 13:53----------------------------

My bad. The problem is

  <mirrors>     <mirror>          <id>public</id>         <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf> <url>http://mavenrepo.mycorp.com:8081/nexus/content/repositories/public</url>     </mirror>    </mirrors> 

<mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf> should be <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>. By using *, it will be used to handle all download request of all repos. And surely the repo of company doesn't mirror 3rd part repos resources

Answer 1

Posting my guess as an answer.

Your problem seems to be that in your settings.xml you have a <mirrors/> section which is overriding the repositories defined in your pom.xml.