Maven Central Repository: URL and Details

When you work with Java Projects using build tools such as Gradle or Maven, you would have to make use of the Central Repository to add and download the Java libraries and dependencies.

One such repository is the Maven Central Repositiory that host and distributes Java artifacts, jars, and plugins.

Let's take a look at the URL for this repository,

Maven Central Repository URL:

https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/

You can set the Maven Central Repository as default for your Java Maven project by adding the below in your pom.xml file.

pom.xml

<project>
  ...
  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>central</id>
      <url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>
  ...
</project>

Similarly, if you make use of the Gradle build tool for your Java projects, you can set the Maven Central repository as follows,

build.gradle

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}