The french company Antelink is now providing a free public mirror of the JBoss.org Maven repositories.  This repository provides a faster way for users in France and other areas of Europe to download JBoss artifacts for their builds.  The Antelink repository is running the Nexus repository manager, and includes a "public-jboss" repository group with contents matching the JBoss.org "public-jboss" group.  In addition, individual proxy repositories are provided for the hosted JBoss.org releases and thirdparty-releases repositories.  The full list of repositories can be viewed using the Nexus web interface.

http://maven.antelink.com/

Using Maven, there are several options for configuring your build repositories via the project pom and/or Maven settings.  The recommended way to use the new mirror without affecting existing POM configuration, is to use the Maven mirror settings located in Maven settings.xml.

  <mirrors>
    ...
    <mirror>
      <id>antelink-public-jboss-mirror</id>
      <name>Antelink mirror of the JBoss.org Maven repository</name>
      <url>http://maven.antelink.com/content/groups/public-jboss/</url>
      <mirrorOf>jboss-public-repository-group</mirrorOf>
    </mirror>    ...
  </mirrors>

Note: The antelink mirror does not include the JBoss snapshots repository, so this may need to configured separately if your build requires snapshot artifacts.

Thanks to Antelink for providing this mirror!