Maven informa una excepción de tiempo de espera mientras descarga dependencias, ya que su tiempo de espera predeterminado es 60000, pero en mi caso necesito aumentar porque (El entorno en el que estoy trabajando ha establecido un servidor intermediario que primero descarga todo el archivo a su propio servidor y mi máquina obtener los archivos descargados de ese servidor intermediario). Ahora aquí viene el problema, si la dependencia es demasiado grande, simplemente eso lleva más de 60000 mili segundos, entonces el eclipse estalló con la siguiente excepción

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
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[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension Aggregator
[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension API
[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension SPI
[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension Core
[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension DBUnit Integration
[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension Integration Tests
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[INFO] Building Arquillian Persistence Extension Aggregator 1.0.0.Final-SNAPSHOT
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[INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0:enforce (enforce-java-version) @ arquillian-persistence-parent ---
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[INFO] --- maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0:enforce (enforce-maven-version) @ arquillian-persistence-parent ---
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[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.3:unpack (unpack) @ arquillian-persistence-parent ---
[INFO] Configured Artifact: org.wildfly:wildfly-dist:8.0.0.Final:zip
Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/wildfly/wildfly-dist/8.0.0.Final/wildfly-dist-8.0.0.Final.zip
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[INFO] Reactor Summary:
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[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension Aggregator ....... FAILURE [2:11.315s]
[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension API .............. SKIPPED
[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension SPI .............. SKIPPED
[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension Core ............. SKIPPED
[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension DBUnit Integration  SKIPPED
[INFO] Arquillian Persistence Extension Integration Tests  SKIPPED
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 2:11.908s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed May 07 11:27:41 PKT 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 22M/177M
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.3:unpack (unpack) on project arquillian-persistence-parent: Unable to resolve artifa
ct. Could not transfer artifact org.wildfly:wildfly-dist:zip:8.0.0.Final from/to central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): No response received after 60000
[ERROR] org.wildfly:wildfly-dist:zip:8.0.0.Final
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] from the specified remote repositories:
[ERROR] central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2, releases=true, snapshots=false)
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException

No se recibió respuesta después de 60000, esta línea crea problemas.

Como una solución:

estoy usandosettings.xml con las siguientes configuraciones

<settings>
  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>central</id>
      <configuration>
            <timeout>120000</timeout>
      </configuration>
    </server>
  </servers>
</settings>

aunque estoy seguro de que la ruta de settings.xml es correcta.

Lamentablemente no funciona.