One would think that if you explicitly specify the url of a maven plugin dependency in maven.xml, it will be used to download the plugin. But it doesn't! Worse still, when maven couldn't download the specified plugin, it would complain saying it couldn't find the plugin from the specified url, but in fact it always by default download from

    http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/<groupId>/plugins/<artifactId>-<version>.jar

Isn't this misleading and pretty counter-intuitive ?

To override this behavior, you can specify a list of remote sites via "maven.repo.remote" in project.properties.

For example:

    maven.repo.remote = http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/, http://<myurl>

More details can be found here.

I couldn't find the Comcast Special Offer for High Speed Internet Access that would consider my residential address on Mercer Island as a valid address until I visited another site http://www.adelphiaoffers.com which is supposed to be a competitor! That site said they didn't provide service at my address, and then they send me to a special URL that would give me a working Comcast Special Offer!

Strange.

You can try http://p4eclipse.sf.net/beta in Eclipse 3.1.1.

The Free Credit Report Act passed by the US government allows people living in the US to get one free credit report annually. Try here. Pretty good.

Thanks Alex for pointing out.