Artifact search engine:
https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/index.html
Another artifact search engine:
Maven Central Repository Browser
http://search.maven.org/#browse
Repository that contains prehistoric dependencies such as apache-httpclient:commons-httpclient
. Despite being deprecated, project such as Arquillian depend on jars contained in that repository! Go figure…
<repository> <id>JBoss deprecated</id> <name>JBoss deprecated repository</name> <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/deprecated/</url> </repository>
When importing existing Maven projects into eclipse, be sure the following snippet is present in the pom.xml. Specially if you import projects that use Servlet 3.0!
<build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> <showWarnings>true</showWarnings> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build>