[put up here to be crawled and help the next hapless soul]

taken from http://blog.dawouds.com/2009/11/sun-moved-maven-repository-breaking.html

Just put in

<``pluginRepositories``>

<``pluginRepository``>

<``id``>java.net-plugin-1</``id``>

<``name``>java.net Maven Repository</``name``>

<``url``>[http://download.java.net/maven/1](http://download.java.net/maven/1)</``url``>

<``layout``>legacy</``layout``>

</``pluginRepository``>

<``pluginRepository``>

<``id``>java.net-plugin-2</``id``>

<``name``>java.net Maven Repository</``name``>

<``url``>[http://download.java.net/maven/2](http://download.java.net/maven/2)</``url``>

</``pluginRepository``>

</``pluginRepositories``>

in your pom.xml