Never, ever, ever add any repositories to your pom.xml. Never. Have one central repo (nexus, artifactory, whatever) for your organization and make it a mirror o

Never, ever, ever add any repositories to your pom.xml. Never. Have one central repo (nexus, artifactory, whatever) for your organization and make it a mirror of all others via settings.xml, not in the pom. This adds a lot to build stability and reproducibility.