Maven Issues - mvn install

[Paolo Futre]

Now I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to post this on but I couldn't find any forum which seemed to specialise in build tools. If this is not the correct forum, please feel free to move to a more appropriate place.

I'm new to Maven and am having an issue when trying to use the 'mvn install' command on a project. The output I'm getting is:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building
[INFO]    task-segment: [install]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading: ht[I]t[/I]p://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-resour
ces-plugin/2.3/maven-resources-plugin-2.3.pom
Downloading: ht[I]t[/I]p://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-resour
ces-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 (h[I]t[/I]tp: //repo1.maven.org/maven2)

 for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin

I know that I'm sitting behind proxy but (I think) I have added the correct <proxy> credentials in my settings.xml file.

Could the error message I'm getting be down to the fact that my proxy is not actually setup correctly? Is there anyway I can test this?

Thanks for your help in advance.