Maven: Could not calculate build plan: Failure to transfer

Last day a very simple thing took little while for us to resolve. I was trying to setup a new project on a machine and did not have all my environment variables setup properly.


I was trying both the command line and eclipse options interchangibly. Initially I had the wrong repository settins in settings.xml so it could not download any jars and I ended up having *.lastUpdated files all over.

Eclipse maven plugin seems to stop downloading the dependencies if it seems *.lastUpdated files. I had to remove the all the *.lastUpdated file and plugin starts to work agian.
I read same clean up can be done using mvn -U clean too.   happy reading Manisha