I want to have all my custom plugins in the internal company repository. However the plugin:download goal has a bug where it is not finding the plugins correctly. Here is what I have discovered. maven.repo.remote=file:///development/dev-share/maven -this fails to find the plugins but works fine for finding library dependencies. maven.repo.remote=file://x:/maven - 2 slashes this fails to find plugins but works find for finding libraries maven.repo.remote=file:///x:/maven - noticed the 3 slashes, this works for finding the plugins but now all libraries fail to dowload because of invalid syntax.