I am trying to follow the tutorial and it seems that maven just isn't working for me. I don't have clue what maven does. What do I need to do to get this going?

mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="org.hsqldb.Server" -Dexec.args="-database.0 file:target/data/tutorial"

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jboss ... -2.0.0.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.jboss.maven.plugins:maven-jdocbook-style-plugin:pom:2.0.0' from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Error transferring file: repo1.maven.org
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jboss ... -2.0.0.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.jboss.maven.plugins:maven-jdocbook-style-plugin:pom:2.0.0' from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Error transferring file: repo1.maven.org
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).


Project ID: org.jboss.maven.plugins:maven-jdocbook-style-plugin

Reason: POM 'org.jboss.maven.plugins:maven-jdocbook-style-plugin' not found in repository: Unable to download the artifact from any repository

org.jboss.maven.plugins:maven-jdocbook-style-plugin:pom:2.0.0

from the specified remote repositories:
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)

for project org.jboss.maven.plugins:maven-jdocbook-style-plugin


[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 10 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Mar 19 23:17:26 PST 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Can you enable the -e switch please and then rerun maven.

You could find the solution to your problem here.

http://opensource.atlassian.com/project ... e/HHH-3204

I have a related question about this profile setting. I am currently trying to get a project to the central maven repo (repo1.maven.org), but I have a dependency on hibernate entitymanager 3.5.0.Final which means that I have to use a repository setting in my poms. That repository setting however prevents me from doing that because the central maven repo must be selfcontained.

Will hibernate continue to be synced to the central maven repo?

I followed this tutorial and ran in to this issue and many others. I was able to clear these road-blocks and complete the tutorial. If anyone want any further details on how I fixed various issues, please see my blog post. http://kaizenprogrammer.blogspot.com/20 ... orial.html
I had to post 6 blog entries showing the errors I got and how I fixed them.