Problems reading build.properties under Windows 2000 with Maven

[Lino Lourenco <li...@db.com>]

Hello,

I am a new user using Maven for our project behind a proxy server and am 
having problems setting properties in the build.properites file - i.e. 
under Windows they are not getting read. 

I read the instructions on how to install Maven and am trying to set the 
build properties. Having read the documentation and consulted the mailing 
lists I tried the following: 

build.properties file contents:
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maven.proxy.host=IPaddress 
maven.proxy.port=port 
maven.proxy.username=username 
maven.proxy.password=password 

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I copied this information in the following directories: 

C:\Documents and Settings\username\.maven 
C:\Documents and Settings\username.domain\ 
C:\Documents and Settings\username.domain\.maven\repository 
C:\WINNT\Profiles\username 
c:\winnt\profiles\username\personal 
C:\daven (daven is the sample project I am using) 

I have set %USER_HOME% and the following are the varius paths on my 
system:

MAVEN_HOME=C:\maven-1.0-rc1 
USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\username.domain 
USER_HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\username.domain 
HOME=c:\winnt\profiles\username\personal 
PATH=C:\maven-1.0-rc1\bin;%PATH% 

I attempted to generate a project using the following CLI command from the 
C:\daven directory: 

maven java:compile -X -b 

I also ran the following command: %MAVEN_HOME%\bin\install_repo.bat 
%HOME%\.maven\repository
which copies the repository files to  %HOME%\.maven\repository 
(c:\winnt\profiles\username\personal).

Despite many different attempts I could not the JARS to download. The only 
time it worked was when I manually set the System properties: 

maven -Dmaven.proxy.host=ipaddress -Dmaven.proxy.port=port 
-Dmaven.proxy.username=username -Dmaven.proxy.password=password 
java:compile -X -b 

Additionally I added a driver.properties and project.properties files as 
indicated in the documentation. Perhaps I am doing somthing obviously 
wrong, but in case this is a Windows specific bug I have sent this to the 
user mailing list. 

I have tried searching the Archives and was not able to find an identical 
issue, so I apologise in advance if I am wasting anyon's time with an 
issue that has been previously aired. 
 
-- Lino.