Below is the error I usually get when my internet connection is flanky when trying to build a web application with maven.
My question is that, why does maven always have to download every time when the same app has been built earlier.
What could be wrong in my configuration that makes maven to download every time?
Below is an error I get when I try to build offline:
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[INFO] Building mywebapp 1.0-SNAPSHOT
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Downloading: https://raw.github.com/pagecrumb/mungo/mvn-repo/com/pagecrumb/mungo/0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
[WARNING] Could not transfer metadata com.mywebapp:mungo:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
from/to mungo-mvn-repo (https://raw.github.com/pagecrumb/mungo/mvn-repo/): raw.github.com
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war (default-cli) @ mywebapp ---
[INFO] Packaging webapp
[INFO] Assembling webapp [mywebapp] in [D:\workspace\web\target\mywebapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT]
[INFO] Processing war project
[INFO] Copying webapp resources [D:\workspace\web\src\main\webapp]
[INFO] Webapp assembled in [1237 msecs]
[INFO] Building war: D:\workspace\web\target\mywebapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war
[WARNING] Warning: selected war files include a WEB-INF/web.xml which will be ignored
(webxml attribute is missing from war task,
or ignoreWebxml attribute is specified as 'true')
[INFO]
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[INFO] Building com.mywebapp [com.mywebapp] 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
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Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-release-plugin/2.1/maven-release-plugin-2.1.pom
[WARNING] Failed to retrieve plugin descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.1: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.1 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:jar:2.1
Downloading: http://download.java.net/maven/2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-metadata.xml
Downloading: http://download.java.net/maven/2/org/codehaus/mojo/maven-metadata.xml
397/397 B
Downloaded: http://download.java.net/maven/2/org/codehaus/mojo/maven-metadata.xml (397 B at 0.0 KB/sec)
[WARNING] Failure to transfer org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin/maven-metadata.xml from http://download.java.net/maven/2 was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of maven2-repository.dev.java.net has elapsed or updates are forced. Original error: Could not transfer metadata org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin/maven-metadata.xml from/to maven2-repository.dev.java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/2): download.java.net
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.3:war (default-cli) @ mywebapp-build ---
[INFO] Packaging webapp
[INFO] Assembling webapp [mywebapp-build] in [D:\workspace\target\mywebapp-build-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT]
[INFO] Processing war project
[INFO] Webapp assembled in [15 msecs]
[INFO] Building war: D:\workspace\target\mywebapp-build-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary:
[INFO]
[INFO] mywebapp ..................................... SUCCESS [27.999s]
[INFO] com.mywebapp [com.mywebapp] ..................... FAILURE [1:00.406s]
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 1:41.409s
[INFO] Finished at: Tue May 07 22:13:38 SGT 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/28M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.3:war
(default-cli) on project mywebapp-build: Error assembling WAR: webxml attribute is required (or pre-existing WEB-INF/web.xml if executing in update mode)
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I suppose because you didn't specify plugin version so it triggers the download of associated metadata in order to get the last one.
Otherwise did you try to force local repo usage using -o ?
I haven't studied yet, when Maven does which look-up, but to get stable and reproducible builds, I strongly recommend not to access Maven Respositories directly but to use a Maven Repository Manager such as Nexus.
Here is the tutorial how to set up your settings file:
http://books.sonatype.com/nexus-book/reference/maven-sect-single-group.html
Maven does this because your dependency is in a SNAPSHOT version and maven has no way to detect any changes made to that snapshot version in the repository. Release your artifact and change the version in pom.xml to that version and maven will no longer fetch the metadata file.
It is possibly to use the flag -o,--offline "Work offline" to prevent that.
Like this:
maven compile -o
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