After a lot of feedback and discussions about the repo configuration and repo performance, we've decided to make some changes to the Nexus repo [1]. The public group URL now contains the proxy repositories, so this URL can be used by everyone instead of having separate anonymous vs. authenticated settings. The other change is that downloads from the public group now allow standard http, and this appears to have some improvement in the download speed. I think we should also include this repository URL in project POMs for the time being. Ideally, we wouldn't need repositories listed in POMs because it can cause problems when the pom is used from the repository. But for now, I think the benefits of including repositories in project POMs outweigh the negatives. By adding this public repo to your project POM, a default Maven install with no settings.xml configuration should be able to build your project. [1]http://community.jboss.org/en/build/blog/2010/05/31/maven-repository-pe...