Bitcoin Forum

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
  <artifactId>connectcoinm</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>

  <name>connectcoinm</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>

 <repositories>
   <repository>
     <id>bitcoinj-release</id>
     <releases/>
     <url>http://nexus.bitcoinj.org/content/repositories/releases</url>
   </repository>
   <repository>
     <id>bitcoinj-snapshot</id>
     <snapshots/>
     <url>http://nexus.bitcoinj.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
   </repository>
 </repositories>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  <!-- Depend on BitCoinJ -->
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google</groupId>
    <artifactId>bitcoinj</artifactId>
    <version>0.3</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
  </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

Failed to execute goal on project connectcoinm: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.mycompany:connectcoinm:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT: Failed to collect dependencies for [junit:junit:jar:3.8.1 (test), com.google:bitcoinj:jar:0.3 (compile)]: Failed to read artifact descriptor for com.google:bitcoinj:jar:0.3: Could not transfer artifact com.google:bitcoinj:pom:0.3 from/to bitcoinj-release (http://nexus.bitcoinj.org/content/repositories/releases): Failed to transfer file: http://nexus.bitcoinj.org/content/repositories/releases/com/google/bitcoinj/0.3/bitcoinj-0.3.pom. Return code is: 502, ReasonPhrase:Bad Gateway. -> [Help 1]

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
	at myproject.Myproject.main(Myproject.java:33)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.google.bitcoin.core.ECKey.<clinit>(ECKey.java:53)
	... 1 more
Java Result: 1

ECKey key = new ECKey();

SECNamedCurves.getByName("secp256k1")
returned null.