attempt to override travis maven settings.xml to avoid slow repositories

.travis.settings.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0" 
+          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
+          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
+
+<!-- mirrors
+   | This is a list of mirrors to be used in downloading artifacts from remote repositories.
+   | 
+   | It works like this: a POM may declare a repository to use in resolving certain artifacts.
+   | However, this repository may have problems with heavy traffic at times, so people have mirrored
+   | it to several places.
+   |
+   | That repository definition will have a unique id, so we can create a mirror reference for that
+   | repository, to be used as an alternate download site. The mirror site will be the preferred 
+   | server for that repository.
+   |-->
+  <mirrors>
+     <!--mirror>
+      <id>repo.exist.com</id>
+      <url>http://repo.exist.com/maven2</url>
+      <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
+    </mirror-->
+  </mirrors>
+
+  <!-- profiles
+   | This is a list of profiles which can be activated in a variety of ways, and which can modify
+   | the build process. Profiles provided in the settings.xml are intended to provide local machine-
+   | specific paths and repository locations which allow the build to work in the local environment.
+   |
+   | For example, if you have an integration testing plugin - like cactus - that needs to know where
+   | your Tomcat instance is installed, you can provide a variable here such that the variable is 
+   | dereferenced during the build process to configure the cactus plugin.
+   |
+   | As noted above, profiles can be activated in a variety of ways. One way - the activeProfiles
+   | section of this document (settings.xml) - will be discussed later. Another way essentially
+   | relies on the detection of a system property, either matching a particular value for the property,
+   | or merely testing its existence. Profiles can also be activated by JDK version prefix, where a 
+   | value of '1.4' might activate a profile when the build is executed on a JDK version of '1.4.2_07'.
+   | Finally, the list of active profiles can be specified directly from the command line.
+   |
+   | NOTE: For profiles defined in the settings.xml, you are restricted to specifying only artifact
+   |       repositories, plugin repositories, and free-form properties to be used as configuration
+   |       variables for plugins in the POM.
+   |
+   |-->
+  <profiles>
+    <!-- profile
+     | Specifies a set of introductions to the build process, to be activated using one or more of the
+     | mechanisms described above. For inheritance purposes, and to activate profiles via <activatedProfiles/>
+     | or the command line, profiles have to have an ID that is unique.
+     |
+     | An encouraged best practice for profile identification is to use a consistent naming convention
+     | for profiles, such as 'env-dev', 'env-test', 'env-production', 'user-jdcasey', 'user-brett', etc.
+     | This will make it more intuitive to understand what the set of introduced profiles is attempting
+     | to accomplish, particularly when you only have a list of profile id's for debug.
+     |
+     | This profile example uses the JDK version to trigger activation, and provides a JDK-specific repo.
+    <profile>
+      <id>jdk-1.4</id>
+
+      <activation>
+        <jdk>1.4</jdk>
+      </activation>
+
+      <repositories>
+        <repository>
+          <id>jdk14</id>
+          <name>Repository for JDK 1.4 builds</name>
+          <url>http://www.myhost.com/maven/jdk14</url>
+          <layout>default</layout>
+          <snapshotPolicy>always</snapshotPolicy>
+        </repository>
+      </repositories>
+    </profile>
+    -->
+
+    <!--
+     | Here is another profile, activated by the system property 'target-env' with a value of 'dev',
+     | which provides a specific path to the Tomcat instance. To use this, your plugin configuration
+     | might hypothetically look like:
+     |
+     | ...
+     | <plugin>
+     |   <groupId>org.myco.myplugins</groupId>
+     |   <artifactId>myplugin</artifactId>
+     |   
+     |   <configuration>
+     |     <tomcatLocation>${tomcatPath}</tomcatLocation>
+     |   </configuration>
+     | </plugin>
+     | ...
+     |
+     | NOTE: If you just wanted to inject this configuration whenever someone set 'target-env' to
+     |       anything, you could just leave off the <value/> inside the activation-property.
+     |
+    <profile>
+      <id>env-dev</id>
+
+      <activation>
+        <property>
+          <name>target-env</name>
+          <value>dev</value>
+        </property>
+      </activation>
+
+      <properties>
+        <tomcatPath>/path/to/tomcat/instance</tomcatPath>
+      </properties>
+    </profile>
+    -->
+  </profiles>
+
+  <!-- activeProfiles
+   | List of profiles that are active for all builds.
+   |
+  <activeProfiles>
+    <activeProfile>alwaysActiveProfile</activeProfile>
+    <activeProfile>anotherAlwaysActiveProfile</activeProfile>
+  </activeProfiles>
+  -->
+</settings>

.travis.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ language: java
 jdk:
 - oraclejdk8
 install: mvn --version
+before_install: 
+    - cp .travis.settings.xml $HOME/.m2/settings.xml
 before_script: "./.travis.version_if_tag.sh"
 after_success: "./.travis.deploy_if_tag.sh"
 cache: