Maven dependencies are not getting downloaded, proxy issues

For details of setting up a proxy for Maven, see the mini guide.

Essentially you need to ensure the proxies section in either the global settings ([maven install]/conf/settings.xml), or user settings (${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml) is configured correctly. It is better to do this in your user settings to avoid storing the password in plain text in a public location.

Maven 2.1 introduced password encryption, but I've not got round to checking if the encryption applies for the proxy settings as well as repository passwords (don't see why it wouldn't though).

For info, there is a commented-out proxy configuration in your settings.xml and instructions on how to modify it.

From the mini-guide, your settings should look something like this:

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                  http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
[...]
  <proxies>
    <proxy>
      <active>true</active>
      <protocol>http</protocol>
      <host>proxy.somewhere.com</host>
      <port>8080</port>
      <username>proxyuser</username>
      <password>somepassword</password>
      <nonProxyHosts>www.google.com|*.somewhere.com</nonProxyHosts>
    </proxy>
  </proxies>
[...]
</settings>

Remove all your failed downloads:

find ~/.m2  -name "*.lastUpdated" -exec grep -q "Could not transfer" {} \; -print -exec rm {} \;

For windows:

cd %userprofile%\.m2\repository
for /r %i in (*.lastUpdated) do del %i

Then rightclick on your project in eclipse and choose Maven->"Update Project ...", make sure "Update Dependencies" is checked in the resulting dialog and click OK.