Problem in Compiling NER from repo

[BeyonderXX]

I tried to train a new NER tagger. So I compiled the NER repository according to your guideline.
It seems that some download links of requirement libs are out of date.
There is the same issue as mine #713 , but no answer.

Error log is thrown as:

[INFO] ----------------< edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp:illinois-ner >----------------
[INFO] Building illinois-ner 4.0.15
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-source-plugin/2.1.2/maven-source-plugin-2.1.2.pom
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-source-plugin/2.1.2/maven-source-plugin-2.1.2.pom (5.2 kB at 12 kB/s)
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-plugins/18/maven-plugins-18.pom
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-plugins/18/maven-plugins-18.pom (13 kB at 31 kB/s)
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-parent/16/maven-parent-16.pom
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-parent/16/maven-parent-16.pom (23 kB at 54 kB/s)
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/apache/7/apache-7.pom
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/apache/7/apache-7.pom (14 kB at 34 kB/s)
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-source-plugin/2.1.2/maven-source-plugin-2.1.2.jar
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-source-plugin/2.1.2/maven-source-plugin-2.1.2.jar (24 kB at 56 kB/s)
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/edu/illinois/cs/cogcomp/lbjava-maven-plugin/1.3.1/lbjava-maven-plugin-1.3.1.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 18.235 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2021-07-14T13:40:01Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Plugin edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp:lbjava-maven-plugin:1.3.1 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Failed to read artifact descriptor for edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp:lbjava-maven-plugin:jar:1.3.1: Could not transfer artifact edu.illinois.cs.cogcomp:lbjava-maven-plugin:pom:1.3.1 from/to maven-default-http-blocker (http://0.0.0.0/): Blocked mirror for repositories: [CogcompSoftware (http://cogcomp.org/m2repo/, default, releases+snapshots)] -> [Help 1]

[dmacjam]

The latest maven is blocking HTTP repositories - use url with https e.g. <url>https://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/m2repo/</url>.