How do I add 3rd Party maven repository?

Question

I am using sonatype nexus 2.5.1.

I have uploaded some artifacts to the 3rd party repository. But my maven build fails..

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project server: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.farheap.jsi:server:ejb:3.33.0-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find net.jakubholy.testing:dbunit-express:jar:1.3.2 in http://nexus.foo.com:8081/nexus/content/groups/public was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of nexus has elapsed or updates are fo rced -> [Help 1] [ERROR]

I have this in my local settings.xml

<mirror>
<id>nexus</id>
<mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
<url>http://nexus.foo.com:8081/nexus/content/groups/public</url>
</mirror>

And in my Nexus I have setup the Public repository to have the 3rd party repository in the "Available Repositories".

I can find the artifact in the 3rd Party repository in Nexus.

Answer 1

You wrote:

And in my Nexus I have setup the Public repository to have the 3rd party repository in the "Available Repositories"

The "Available Repositories" are the one that are available to be added to your group. In other words, it shows the repositories that are not part of your group. You should move the 3rd party repository to the "Ordered Group Repositories" to make it part of your group.

Not a very intuitive UI section imo.