Brand new to Maven, first build, didn't go well.

Hi all, I'm a QA tester who is researching functional testing tools for an upcoming Agile project. One of the projects I want to build requires Maven. I have some intermittent experience building from source. I will add that I'm at work and behind a firewall. I believe there is also a proxy

true ignored with build from parent

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Why does Maven keep downloading smack and smackx files? (noob here)

orbairt/AccuFunnel/emu $ find ~/.m2/repository/ -name 'smack*' /home/amy/.m2/repository/org/igniterealtime/smack /home/amy/.m2/repository/org/igniterealtime/smack/smack /home/amy/.m2/repository/org/igniterealtime/smack/smack/3.0.4/smack-3.0.4.jar /home/amy/.m2/repository/org/igniterealtime