i have created a maven web project using the below site.

http://www.mkyong.com/maven/how-to-create-a-web-application-project-with-maven/

i have done all of the steps given there and executed the simple hello world program

Now i have to include spring dependencies into my eclipse web project.

So

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.2</version>
        </dependency>

in the dependencies tag i added the above code.

It is saying as below

unable to find jars from the repositories (local and as well as remote)

it gave suggestion to execute the command

mvn install -artifactid=springframework (something like this)

but when i mentioned version as 2.5.6 it correctly take.

is it the problem with the version 3.1.2 is unavailable at maven repository.

how to get the latest versions if maven is not working properly for latest versions.

It also gave me the suggestion to go for manually download and put in local repository