Where is maven central repository ?
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 :

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








[...] from the central repository. In Maven, when you need some libraries that are NOT EXITS the Maven center repository, the process will stopped and output error messages to your Maven [...]
[...] Maven central repository Maven central repository is the default location to download all the project dependency libraries. [...]