Problem Statement: Your pom.xml dependencies is not able to download a certain jar from the repository.

Solution:
You can manually download the jar and add it to your local maven repository.

Assuming this dependency (mentioned in pom.xml) fails (because the jar fails to download):


org.hibernate
hibernate-entitymanager
3.3.2.GA
Then download hibernate-entitymanager-3.3.2.GA manually, and run the command:
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.hibernate -DartifactId=hibernate-entitymanager -Dversion=3.3.2.GA -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=./hibernate-entitymanager-3.3.2.GA.jar

Thats it, you are all set.

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