[java] How to set order of repositories in Maven settings.xml

I have 3 repositories in my settings.xml because I need artifacts from all of them. Whenever a dependency is not found, Maven tries

Downloading: http://some.server/mvn2repo/releases/org/apache/lucene/lucene-core/2.9.1/...
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.apache.lucene:lucene-core:pom:2.9.1' in repository
Downloading: http://some.server/mvn2repo/3rdParty/org/apache/lucene/lucene-core/2.9.1/...
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.apache.lucene:lucene-core:pom:2.9.1' in repository
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/lucene/lucene-core/2.9.1/lucene-core-2.9.1.pom
<success>

all repositories, but most of the time finds the artifact in central (repo1) of course. I want Maven to check this repo first. I tried order of declarations in settings.xml, but did not work. According to fgysin I also tried the reverse order, which didn't change anything.

My Maven version:

C:\>mvn -v
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 21:16:01+0200)
Java version: 1.6.0_15
Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_15\jre
Default locale: de_AT, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows vista" version: "6.0" arch: "amd64" Family: "windows"

My settings.xml

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>space</id>
        <repositories>
            <repository>
                <releases>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </releases>
                <snapshots>
                    <enabled>false</enabled>
                </snapshots>
                <id>s1-releases</id>
                <name>System One Releases</name>
                <url>http://some.server/mvn2repo/releases</url>
            </repository>
            <repository>
                <releases>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </releases>
                <snapshots>
                    <enabled>false</enabled>
                </snapshots>
                <id>s1-3rdParty</id>
                <name>System One 3rd Party Releases</name>
                <url>http://some.server/mvn2repo/3rdParty</url>
            </repository>
            <repository>
                <releases>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </releases>
                <snapshots>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </snapshots>
                <id>central</id>
                <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
            </repository>
        </repositories>
        <pluginRepositories>
            <pluginRepository>
                <releases>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </releases>
                <snapshots>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                </snapshots>
                <id>central</id>
                <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
            </pluginRepository>
        </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
</profiles>

<activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>space</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>

None of these answers were correct in my case.. the order seems dependent on the alphabetical ordering of the <id> tag, which is an arbitrary string. Hence this forced repo search order:

            <repository>
                <id>1_maven.apache.org</id>
                <releases>  <enabled>true</enabled>  </releases>
                <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> </snapshots>
                <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
                <layout>default</layout>
            </repository>

            <repository>
                <id>2_maven.oracle.com</id>
                <releases>  <enabled>true</enabled>  </releases>
                <snapshots> <enabled>false</enabled> </snapshots>
                <url>https://maven.oracle.com</url>
                <layout>default</layout>
            </repository>

Also, consider to use a repository manager such as Nexus and configure all your repositories there.