Re: [hibernate-users] total noobie question

sorry if I'm answering my own questions here, but they just raise more after looking harder at the tutorial found reference to the code for the tutorial under |tutorials/web| directory of the project source. I imported the directory into a "maven project?" in eclipse. when i try to build and run i get in the maven console: url = http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/hibernate/hibernate-tutorials/3.5.0-Bet... [ERROR] Failed to resolve parent-POM from repository. Parent POM Information: Group-Id: org.hibernate Artifact-Id: hibernate-tutorials Version: 3.5.0-Beta-2 Local Repository: C:\Documents and Settings\brian\.m2\repository Remote Repositories: central -> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 Reason: Unable to download the artifact from any repository org.hibernate:hibernate-tutorials:pom:3.5.0-Beta-2 from the specified remote repositories: central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) Project Id: org.hibernate:hibernate-tutorial-web:war:[inherited] From file: C:\work\web\pom.xml [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] For more information, run with the -e flag [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] + Ignoring build failures [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 1 second [INFO] Finished at: Mon Nov 23 18:10:56 PST 2009 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ after this, there are no classes or build directory in the working dir thanks! brian wrote: