Maven Hell Again and Again
Something is wrong with Maven. Really. Even though no-1 problem of smooth maven operation in my country is no longer an issue (the no 1 problem is low bandwidth internet connectivity, this no longer an issue since my office's bandwidth has been upgraded tremendously), other issues still plague my maven operation today. See, I have this one production java application, built using Spring Roo (a good technology choice at the moment) and each time the source code changes I am forced to waste time repairing my maven configuration. The problem is a failed dependency resolution that took a long time to investigate. One of the previous big time-waster when I am using maven is the problematic Maven-Eclipse integration. I avoid Eclipse now, currently I am using IntelliJ's IDEA Community edition. The error is something like : At first I was confused that the problem is about stale local repository cache, which I tried to fix using mvn -U switch. Because it does no good, I...