(1) I was using the eclipse plugin (I think it is the Q plugin - I have yet to try out the other plug in) because it was the only way I knew to browse the repositories. It had the added benefit of writing the pom.xml for you. After having a less than optimal experience with the other features of the plugin, I am wondering if there are some other ways to browse the repositories.
I was kinda expecting http://www.sonatype.com/book/simple-project.html and http://www.devzuz.com/web/guest/products/resources#BBWM to recommend a way of browsing repositories but I have not found it yet. I did a quick google seach for "maven repositories" and found http://www.mvnrepository.com/ . Do folks prefer this over the maven plugin for eclipse? Are there yet other ways to browse the repositories? (2) Does http://www.mvnrepository.com/ search all the maven repositories or just one? Is there a list of repositories some where? (3) Is there a switch so that I can automatically check for the latest version of each dependency and download a newer version if one exists? (4) What is the policy on updating the repositories? I notice that Junit 4.4 was just released but it did not show up in the maven eclipse UI for browsing repositories. The latest I saw was junit 4.0. Thanks, Siegfried
