Sorry, the correct url is http://snapshots.jboss.org/maven2/ my bad. I saw it in the jboss richfaces pom, so I figured it's the standaard jboss snapshot repo. Idunno who's in charge of the repo's at JBoss? AFAIK, if JBoss follows the maven guidelines it's recommended to have 2 repo's: 1) a releases repo, which: -- gets release artifacts deployed to it from jboss projects ("mvn release/deploy") upon release -- has a number of groupId's which are synced up to central (repo1.maven.org). For example org.drools would be nice as then users will find it when they search repo1 or mvnrepository.com) -- optionally is a proxy (see the app servers proximity or archiva) to central, though I'd recommend against this, as you might as well get them directly from central 2) a snapshot repo, which is uses if the version number ends in -SNAPSHOT, during development and for nightly builds. Note that the maven guidelines figured out it's a bad idea to separate normal repo's from pluginRepo's (or even not keep them in sync in your pom.xml), but it's highly recommended to split up snapshot from non snapshot repo's. With kind regards, Geoffrey De Smet Michael Neale wrote: