Recently I face a strange issue while using Maven in Eclipse via M2Eclipse plugin. I have created a Maven Java project in Eclipse and subsequently tried to add Spring framework as a dependency, to my surprise, nothing was happening. Eclipse was not able to search dependency in Maven central repository. I was surprised because I have never faced this issue while I was using the M2Eclipse plugin for a long time. After some trial and error, I realized that this is my brand new workspace and I am running with Eclipse Luna, the newest version of Eclipse which I had just downloaded a couple days of the back. My first hunch was that Eclipse might not able to connect to the Internet, and to verify that I tried connecting the Eclipse market place, and boom it was working fine.
