[fedora-java] Problems creating eclipse project from archetype

[John W. Himpel]

Good afternoon,

This started out as an entry in bugzilla, but I am posting here in hopes
of receiving advise from a wider audience.

I am running an up-to-date rawhide (4/8/2014).  Eclipse version is
KEPLER (1:4.3.2-3.fc20) with eclipse-m2e-core-1.4.0-11.1.fc20.

I am attempting to create a new eclipse project using a maven archetype.
When I click on New->Project...->Maven->Maven Project->Next I get the
New Maven Project wizard.  I select "Use default Workspace location" and
click Next.  I get the next dialog box in the wizard with a dialog box
saying "No archetypes currently available.  The archetype list will
refresh when the indexes finish updating.".  I notice in GKrellM, that
the CPU usage and the LAN usage rises substantially for about 30 - 45
seconds, then returns to normal.  However, nothing changes in the dialog
box.  I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but I'm running inside a
KVM qemu instance with SELINUX=enforcing. 

In bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015324),
someone resolved his issue by adding more space to /tmp.  However,
following his suggestion to use  watch -n1 -d 'du -sh /tmp', there was
no change is the available file space in /tmp.

Has anyone else seen this issue?
Has anyone else gotten it to work successfully?

Am I perhaps missing some dependent rpms?

Are the contents of catalog.xml normally provided in an rpm package or
are they normally downloaded from the master repository?

Do I need to change something in the "Configure" dialog box?

If eclipse is attempting to download the archetype catalog.xml file,
does it use the normal http ports or do I have a firewall issue?

Any suggestions or references would be greatly appreciated.

John