While building a Maven’s project, Maven will check your pom.xml file to download the entire project dependency libraries automatically.

If Maven can’t find the defined dependency libraries in your Maven local repository, it will try to download it from the default Maven central repository, which is http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/.

This is how Maven central repository look like :

Maven center repository

The maven center repository is revamp, if you visit above site via web browser, it will redirect to http://search.maven.org/ automatically.

maven center repository search
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