title: Installing maven and maven plugins
body: <p>I have downloaded Apache Maven 3.1.1 on windows xp and the installation works.However,i want to start jetty but i am thinking there is a way i have to tell maven where to find jetty first but i went ahead anyway and i got this</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\maven&gt;mvn jetty:run
  [INFO] Scanning for projects...
  Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-
  metadata.xml
  Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/maven-metadat
  a.xml
  Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codehaus/mojo/maven-metadata
  .xml (22 KB at 3.2 KB/sec)
  Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-m
  etadata.xml (13 KB at 1.8 KB/sec)
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 20.339s
  [INFO] Finished at: Thu Jan 23 10:17:40 EAT 2014
  [INFO] Final Memory: 5M/13M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] No plugin found for prefix 'jetty' in the current project and in the plu
  gin groups [org.apache.maven.plugins, org.codehaus.mojo] available from the repo
  sitories [local (C:\Documents and Settings\Karl Meiwes\.m2\repository), central
  (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2)] -&gt; [Help 1]
  [ERROR]
  [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e swit
  ch.
  [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
  [ERROR]
  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please rea
  d the following articles:
  [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/NoPluginFoundF
  orPrefixException
  C:\maven&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Will i have to tell maven where to find jetty and how do i install the jetty plugin?.In this version of maven,i find the plugins directory.Should there be one?.</p>