I am learning Maven and trying to find it's often told ability to download required jars automatically. Now I need to access Mysql database in my application. So I opened Dependencies tab in pom.xml visual editor and selected Add... button. Then I entered mysql in the search string.
Eclipse found nothing.
It this true that Mysql JDBC libraries are not on the Maven (central?) repository? Or may be I just configured something incorrectly? Can Maven show itself in the task of looking for JDBC library?
Mysql is in the central Maven repo. M2E uses this repo. You can see all active repositories in Eclipse's Maven repository view (Window > Show View > Other... > Maven > Maven Repositories). In the context menu of an repository you can update or repair the repository's index.