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I am disappointed by the fact that some Maven users not even try to understand Maven's approach.

Where else do you get your Jars from? Magic elves in your computer?

You're going to download free / open source libraries from Teh Internets one way or another. And by the way: when's the last time you validated a checksum for a Jar you downloaded "manually?" Yeah, Maven does that automatically.

Apache Ivy does the same, by the way. And anybody remember Perl CPAN modules?

Local repositories?

Nohaz: of course I would download the JARs from the internet. But if you had read what I wrote, you would have known that my concern is about downloading it (everytime). not just once.

Motion Control: may be I have not read the documentation well about Maven2, but I went through the beginner's part of the documentation. It's not my fault that it has not mentioned something about Maven's approach.

spajus: thanks for the clearance. But you know that already, I didn't till I posted the article and read the comments. And still, if there is local repositories; why not the default behavior ??
I think the headache of downloading the JARs worth making local repositories the default behavior.

Thanks all for your comments and clarifications.