Selenium2 Build Error in Maven apache-maven-3.0.5 - maven

Question

I came across following error in Maven when run the command
C:\Users\Man\SelProj>mvn clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building SelProj 1.0
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.4.1/maven-clean-plugin-2.4.1.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.735s
[INFO] Finished at: Sun Apr 21 15:25:23 EST 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 6M/106M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.apache.maven.plugins:m
aven-clean-plugin:jar:2.4.1: Could not transfer artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.4.1 from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Connection to
http://repo.maven.apache.org refused: connect: Address is invalid on local machine, or port is not valid on remote machine -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginResolutionException
C:\Users\Man\SelProj>
My POM.xml file as follows, I placed the POM file in the folder where I am running the >mvn clean install cmmand
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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>SelProj</groupId>
<artifactId>SelProj</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<dependencies>
<!-- Selenium2 dependency -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>2.32.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.5.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
What could be the reason. I am running this on windows 8 (64 bit)

Answer 1

I also had same issue. Try to use just >mvn install command without clean.

Answer 2

Since you can access it via the web browser, I understand that there is no any issue about the internet connection.
There are 2 significant possible root causes as the following: -
1. The proxy
If you are behind the proxy, please add the proxy configuration to the settings.xml e.g.
<settings>
.
.
<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>
Please see Maven - Guide to using proxies for further information.
2. The Anti-Virus / Firewall Issue
Firewall and Anti-virus sometimes prevent Java from running properly, or Windows Firewall (and various other Firewalls) actively prevent Java.exe from reaching out to the Internet to "download stuff" which is a key part of Maven. You may need to configure the Firewall or Anti-virus to add exceptions to allow such actions.
Please see Maven - Maven on Windows for further information.
I hope this may help.