How To Create Maven Settings Xml File

Are you running multiple Eclipse Environments on your programmer workstation? Or on your laptop? I practice. Let's consider a scenario with 2 different Eclipse workspace with different custom maven settings.

Why is that case? Allow'south understand.

What if your Work evolution surround or framework is based on Eclipse? In company environment, all of your required project's .jar files must be located in private repositories and y'all have custom settings.xml file with very specific repositories.
And on opposite side, for standard eclipse/maven usage – all public maven repositories are bachelor to us for free without any restriction.

Definitely we need ii different settings.xml files for in a higher place usage. If you are new to maven and eclipse setup so follow these steps to setup maven correct way on you lot laptop/desktop.

Note: How to add settings.xml in eclipse? settings.xml is non required (and thus not auto created in ~/.m2 folder) unless you want to change the default settings. In our case we practice accept different settings for work and personal workspace.

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What is settings.xml file?

settings.xml is a file which provides all configuration for maven which internally referenced in your maven project'south pom.xml file. When you add dependencies into pom.xml file maven internally downloads required .jar file and put information technology under the folder which is mentioned in settings.xml file.

Where tin can I find settings.xml file?

Windows machine: C:\Users\ashah\.m2\settings.xml
On Mac Os 10: /dwelling house/ashah/.m2/settings.xml

What is a default content of settings.xml file?

Only update <UserName> in below file with your arrangement'southward username. Here is a maven settings.xml download file.

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<? xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

< !--

| This is the configuration file for Maven . Information technology can be specified at two levels :

| one. User Level . This settings . xml file provides configuration for a single user ,

| and is commonly provided in $ { user . abode }/. m2/settings . xml .

| Annotation : This location tin be overridden with the CLI choice :

| -south /path/to/user/settings . xml

| 2. Global Level . This settings . xml file provides configuration for all Maven

| users on a machine ( assuming they 're all using the same Maven

| installation). It' s normally provided in

| $ { maven . home }/conf/settings . xml .

| NOTE : This location can be overridden with the CLI option :

| -gs /path/to/global/settings . xml

| |

|-->

< settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/ane.0.0"

xmlns : xsi="http://world wide web.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-example"

xsi : schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-ane.0.0.xsd" >

< !-- Change username in below line -->

< localRepository >/Users/ashah/. m2/repository </localRepository >

< interactiveMode > true </interactiveMode >

< offline > false </offline >

< pluginGroups >

< !-- pluginGroup

| Specifies a farther group identifier to utilise for plugin lookup .

< pluginGroup > com . your . plugins </pluginGroup >

-->

</pluginGroups >

< proxies >

< !--

< proxy >

< id > optional </id >

< agile > true </active >

< protocol > http </protocol >

< username > proxyuser </username >

< password > proxypass </password >

< host > proxy . host . net </host >

< port > eighty </port >

< nonProxyHosts > local . net | some . host . com </nonProxyHosts >

</proxy >

-->

</proxies >

< servers >

< !--

< server >

< id > deploymentRepo </id >

< username > crunchify </username >

< countersign > crunchify </countersign >

</server >

-->

</servers >

< mirrors >

< !--

< mirror >

< id > mirrorId </id >

< mirrorOf > repositoryId </mirrorOf >

< name > mirror description </name >

< url > http : //my.repository.com/repo/path</url>

</mirror >

-->

</mirrors >

< profiles >

</profiles >

</settings >

Above is a sample settings.xml for maven eclipse.

How can I use ii different settings.xml files for personal and work related repository?

Footstep-1

Go to ~/.m2 folder
Put work related settings.xml file and provide localRepository path:
<localRepository>/Users/<UserName>/.m2/ piece of work </localRepository>

Stride-2

Go to ~/.m2 folder
Put local eclipse related crunchify-settings.xml file and provide localRepository path:
<localRepository>/Users/<username>/.m2/ repository </localRepository>

What is you don't have correct settings.xml file?

Eclipse throws number of different errors:

One time you lot take right settings.xml file. Try performing below steps and all errors should go away.

Click on Project Menu
Click on Make clean... and clean y'all project
Right click on projection
Click on Maven
Click on Update Project... (below diagram)

That's it. Later on performing to a higher place steps, Eclipse volition import all of your project dependencies nether path provided in settings.xml file. Yous shouldn't see any compilation issue in Eclipse after import process completes. Based on your project dependencies and internet download speed, dependency import process may take betwixt ~v minutes to 30 minutes.

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