I had downloaded my maven plugin from Eclipse Market Place and now I need to set setting.xml file in window-preference-maven-user settings block, but I am unable to find setting.xml file. I had also looked in .m2 directory but only repository directory is there. Please tell where should I look to get setting.xml. Please also tell me what is the term proxy in setting.xml file. I am new to maven so I don't know much about this.
Download the maven installation from here. Extract the zip and there will be settings.xml.
Proxy are used so that maven use that information to download artifacts in corporate environments.