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I am working through a basic Maven tutorial, and managed to create a simple archetype and run a mvn install. However, when trying to do a mvn help:effective-pom, I just seem to get this output:

mvn help:effective-pom [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building simple 1.0-SNAPSHOT [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-help-plugin:2.2:effective-pom (default-cli) @ simple --- Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-plugin-parameter-documenter/2.2.1/maven-plugin-parameter-documenter-2.2.1.pom Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-plugin-parameter-documenter/2.2.1/maven-plugin-parameter-documenter-2.2.1.pom [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 0.925s [INFO] Finished at: Mon May 13 21:41:09 BST 2013 [INFO] Final Memory: 9M/131M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:2.2:effective-pom (default-cli) on project simple: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:2.2:effective-pom failed: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:2.2 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to collect dependencies for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:jar:2.2 (): Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven:maven-plugin-parameter-documenter:jar:2.2.1: Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven:maven-plugin-parameter-documenter:pom:2.2.1 from/to central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Access denied to: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-plugin-parameter-documenter/2.2.1/maven-plugin-parameter-documenter-2.2.1.pom -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginResolutionException

not much hope for me if I cant get past "Hello World" example...any advice appreciated.

Regards

i

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