title: How to configure MAVEN?
body: <p>I am a newbie to maven and i gone through the configuration steps given in Apache site, but still i cant configure it. So anyone please help me with simple steps to configure MAVEN in windows. Thanks in advance.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDITED</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Documents and Settings\arselv&gt;mvn install
  [INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Building Maven Default Project
  [INFO]    task-segment: [install]
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-         resources-     plugin/2.3/maven-resources-plugin-2.3.pom
  Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-resources-  plugin/2.3/maven-resources-plugin-2.3.pom
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).
  
   Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin
   Reason: POM 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin' not found in   repository: Unable to download the artifact from any repository
   org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:pom:2.3
   from the specified remote repositories:
   central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
   for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin
  
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
   [INFO] Total time: 42 seconds
   [INFO] Finished at: Fri Feb 05 13:10:06 IST 2010
   [INFO] Final Memory: 2M/5M
   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So Above is the Error whil trying to do the steps given in apache site.</p>