The Maven settings.xml file is a file on your developer machine (usually located at $HOME/.m2/settings.xml) that holds configuration settings that override the Maven pom.xml settings. Here are some settings found to be useful:

Localizing

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Jetty Deployment for

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Cargo

By default, acceptanceTests/pom.xml(cargo) is set to download the Jetty 7.x zip file from the Eclipse website. This works, but can be very slow or even fail, if the internet connection to that website is bad. To speed things up, you can download the file, place it some where on your computer, and then tell maven where that file is.

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