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1. Eclipse settings affect Maven command-line build?    stackoverflow.com

Most of our projects are built with Maven, and some of them use classes in the com.sun package. That's a bad practice, but there's not much I can do about it. For ...

2. Are these two settings same in maven?    stackoverflow.com

I want to limit maven to use only private/not public maven repository, do these two settings have the same effect ? 1.Setting mirror in settings.xml

<mirrors>
        ...

3. Why maven settings.xml file is not there?    stackoverflow.com

I installed maven plugin for eclipse and was able to use it only in eclipse. I want to be able to run maven commands from terminal so installed maven as explained ...

4. Maven plugin not using eclipse's proxy settings    stackoverflow.com

I am using springsource tool suite 2.7.2, based on eclipse 3.7. The maven plugin comes now out of the box with eclipse which is great, and this problem occured even with ...

5. Why is Eclipse/Maven project not picking up the values from settings.xml?    stackoverflow.com

I have saved the configuration at the bottom in c:\users\username\.m2\settings.xml but pom.xml created as part of Maven Project in Eclipse is not picking up the values. The effective POM still has