* <li>Download and Cache: If Maven finds the artifact in a remote repository, it downloads it and stores it in the local repository for future use.</li>
 * </ol>
 * <p>By caching artifacts in the local repository, Maven minimizes the need to repeatedly download the same artifacts, thus optimizing the build process.</p>
 *
 * <h2>Repository Configuration</h2>
 *
 * <p>Repositories can be configured at various levels:<ol>

                    repository.getId(),
                    repository.getUrl(),
                    repository.getLayout(),
                    repository.getSnapshots(),
                    repository.getReleases());

            repository.setMirroredRepositories(Collections.singletonList(original));

            repository.setId(mirror.getId());
            repository.setUrl(mirror.getUrl());

    private boolean blocked;

    /**
     * Create a local repository or a test repository.
     *
     * @param id     the unique identifier of the repository
     * @param url    the URL of the repository
     * @param layout the layout of the repository
     */
    public DefaultArtifactRepository(String id, String url, ArtifactRepositoryLayout layout) {

        for (ArtifactRepository repository : remoteRepositories) {
            ArtifactRepositoryPolicy policy = metadata.getPolicy(repository);

            if (policy.isEnabled() && loadMetadata(metadata, repository, localRepository, previousMetadata)) {
                metadata.setRepository(repository);
                selected = repository;
            }
        }

            @Nonnull Session session,
            @Nonnull RemoteRepository repository,
            @Nonnull Collection<ProducedArtifact> artifacts) {
        return builder()
                .session(requireNonNull(session, "session cannot be null"))
                .repository(requireNonNull(repository, "repository cannot be null"))
                .artifacts(requireNonNull(artifacts, "artifacts cannot be null"))

import org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepositoryPolicy;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.Authentication;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.RepositoryMetadata;
import org.apache.maven.repository.Proxy;
import org.codehaus.plexus.logging.AbstractLogEnabled;

import org.apache.maven.artifact.InvalidRepositoryException;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepositoryFactory;
import org.apache.maven.model.DeploymentRepository;
import org.apache.maven.model.Repository;
import org.apache.maven.plugin.LegacySupport;
import org.apache.maven.repository.RepositorySystem;
import org.codehaus.plexus.PlexusContainer;

    Object getKey();

    /**
     * Get the filename of this metadata on the local repository.
     *
     * @param repository the remote repository it came from
     * @return the filename
     */
    String getLocalFilename(ArtifactRepository repository);

    /**
     * Get the filename of this metadata on the remote repository.
     *
     * @return the filename
     */
    String getRemoteFilename();

    /**

import org.eclipse.aether.repository.LocalArtifactRegistration;
import org.eclipse.aether.repository.LocalArtifactRequest;
import org.eclipse.aether.repository.LocalArtifactResult;
import org.eclipse.aether.repository.LocalMetadataRegistration;
import org.eclipse.aether.repository.LocalMetadataRequest;
import org.eclipse.aether.repository.LocalMetadataResult;
import org.eclipse.aether.repository.LocalRepository;

     * @param localRepository    local repository
     * @param remoteRepository   remote repository
     * @return {@link List} $lt; {@link ArtifactVersion} >
     * @throws ArtifactMetadataRetrievalException
     *          in case of error while retrieving repository metadata from the repository.
     */
    List<ArtifactVersion> retrieveAvailableVersionsFromDeploymentRepository(