Not able to add springframe work in maven project - spring

Question

I am trying to add spring-core & spring-context in a maven project but upon build, I am getting following error, I am trying to access three repositories which are given in first 3 lines of the follwing compilation error :
[INFO] Downloading from : http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-context/4.0.0.RELEASE/spring-context-4.0.0.RELEASE.pom
[INFO] Downloading from : https://repo.spring.io/milestone/org/springframework/spring-context/4.0.0.RELEASE/spring-context-4.0.0.RELEASE.pom
[INFO] Downloading from : https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-context/4.0.0.RELEASE/spring-context-4.0.0.RELEASE.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 30.622 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-10-05T18:18:19+05:30
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project HelloWorldMaven: Could not resolve dependencies for project Demo:HelloWorldMaven:jar:0.1: Failed to collect dependencies at org.springframework:spring-context:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.springframework:spring-context:jar:4.0.0.RELEASE: Could not transfer artifact org.springframework:spring-context:pom:4.0.0.RELEASE from/to central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): connect timed out -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
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[ERROR]
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Following is my POM.xml in which I have added the dependencies :
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>Demo</groupId>
<artifactId>HelloWorldMaven</artifactId>
<version>0.1</version>
<name>Hello world demo</name>
<description>Hello world demo</description>
<properties>
<org.springframework-core-version>4.0.0.RELEASE</org.springframework-core-version>
<org.springframework-context-version>4.0.0.RELEASE</org.springframework-context-version>
<log4j-version>1.2.17</log4j-version>
<junit-version>4.12</junit-version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>${log4j-version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-core-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${org.springframework-context-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>${junit-version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>fully.qualified.MainClass</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Please help , I am not able to figure out what I am missing, I think I am not able to access the remote repositories.
Please help. Thanks In advance.

Answer 1

You're probably behind a proxy, or your current network requires a proxy, or your connection is shaky
to central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): connect timed out ->

Answer 2

I added following in my setting.xml
<proxies>
<proxy>
<active>true</active>
<protocol>http</protocol>
<host>my.host.address</host>
<port>myPort</port>
</proxy>
</proxies>
and ran the project with
clean install -DproxySet=true -DproxyHost=my.host.address -DproxyPort=myPort
And it worked !