Maven blocking on downloading jars (artifactId :tomcat-maven-plugin) - maven

Question

i have a problem with tomcat-maven-plugin :
here's the code
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-beta-1</version>
</plugin>
so after running this command: clean tomcat:run
i get this result :
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building seleniumproject Maven Webapp 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1:clean (default-clean) # seleniumproject ---
[INFO] Deleting C:\Users\Amira\junoWorkspace\seleniumproject\target
[INFO]
[INFO] >>> tomcat-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-1:run (default-cli) # seleniumproject >>>
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) #seleniumproject ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) # seleniumproject ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO]
[INFO] <<< tomcat-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-1:run (default-cli) # seleniumproject <<<
[INFO]
[INFO] --- tomcat-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-1:run (default-cli) # seleniumproject ---
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-plugin- api/2.0/maven-plugin-api-2.0.pom
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-plugin-api/2.0/maven-plugin-api-2.0.pom (601 B at 1.2 KB/sec)
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/junit/junit/3.8.2/junit-3.8.2.pom
.......................................
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/tomcat/dbcp/6.0.16/dbcp-6.0.16.jar (194 KB at 128.6 KB/sec)
Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/tomcat/coyote/6.0.16/coyote-6.0.16.jar (725 KB at 367.5 KB/sec)
As you see it blocks on downloading :
Is there a solution please

Answer 1

I don't know where you get the url from:
http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/
but it looks you have changed the configuration in the settings.xml file, cause Maven Central has http://repo1.maven.apache.org/maven2/ instead. Furthermore i can recommend to use a repository manager (Nexus, Archiva, Artifactory).
BTW: Why are you using the mojo.codehaus tomcat plugin and not the offical of Apache http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin.html