It has been reported as working from our team of testers, and you're the first user to report it as failing. So overall, it is working; and the issue you get seems to be affecting you for some reason that seems to be a configuration issue on your side (such as a proxy setting or some network limitation). If you want some help, please give more details about the version of JBDS you're using, your steps to initialize the Hello World, the repository which is failing to download, your OS, whether you can access the Maven repository directly.... I recommend you to read a few pages explaining how to ask questions and report technical issues efficiently. Posted by forums Original post: https://developer.jboss.org/message/912803#912803