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+
+Since maven has enforced new ssl policy
+
+## settings.xml
+We need to add a settings.xml to use http instead of https
+
+`vi /home/vagrant/.m2/settings.xml`
+<pre>
+&lt;settings&gt;
+    &lt;mirrors&gt;
+        &lt;mirror&gt;
+            &lt;id&gt;centralhttps&lt;/id&gt;
+            &lt;mirrorOf>central&lt;/mirrorOf&gt;
+            &lt;name&gt;Maven central https&lt;/name&gt;
+            &lt;url&gt;http://insecure.repo1.maven.org/maven2/&lt;/url&gt;
+        &lt;/mirror&gt;
+    &lt;/mirrors&gt;
+&lt;/settings&gt;
+</pre>
+
+## New storm build command
+to avoid peer not authenticated error
+
+`
+mvn package -Dmaven.wagon.http.ssl.insecure=true -Dmaven.wagon.http.ssl.allowall=true -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2
+`
+