title: eclipse and maven global central repository
body: <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7yRfm.jpg" alt="picture">Hello!  </p>
  
  <p>My question is related to eclipse and maven integration, maven repositories and global index update from central mirror.</p>
  
  <p>The quiz is:<br>
  Let's supose that I don't have specified any special mirror, nor<br>
  {maveninstallationfolder}\conf\settings.xml<br>
  neither<br>
  {user-home}.m2\settings.xml  </p>
  
  <p>So then, why or how eclipse '<em>maven repositories</em>' tab decides to fetch central at<br>
  <em>repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</em><br>
  or<br>
  <em>repo1.maven.org/maven2</em><br>
  ?  </p>
  
  <p>Which settings.xml is reloading eclipse when I click on '<em>reload settings</em>' button?  </p>
  
  <p>I ask this because I have two different eclipse installations ('indigo' at work, 'juno' at home).<br>
  At home when I click on '<em>update index</em>' it works ok. It updates it from central mirror <em>repo.maven.apache.org</em><br>
  At work, doing the same operation it always fails trying to update it from <em>repo1.maven.org</em> (I don't know neither I care if because of firewall or proxy issues)<br>
  I would like to know how to change it and force it to fetch it from one or another.  </p>
  
  <p>I attach a picture to clarify</p>
  
  <p>thanks in advance</p>