Spring core course dependency's repository does not exist anymore?

Hello,

Last year i did the core course from Spring. At that course i received a very good book named "Core Spring Student lecture manual" + exercises book. The problem is that after houres of suffering i still not managed to get the examples(solutions) runnable.

I have two options:
-First i tryed to import all the projects into STS and intellij and i try to build them with Maven.

I also added all the dependency's manualy to my local repostirory but i get two errors

This repository does not exist anymore:

Code:

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<url>https://tbits.springsource.com/repository/snapshot</url>

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and when i remove that repository in the pom.xml maven it complained that he can't find the parent project.

Code:

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<parent>
                <groupId>com.springsource.training.common</groupId>
                <artifactId>abstractContainerProject</artifactId>
                <version>1.1.7.RELEASE</version>
        </parent>

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-As second i tryed to remove all the maven part and i just added the library's one by one manually to the projects the code compiles fine than but the problem is that the unit tests are nut running i get a stack trace "java.lang.exception" no runnable methods found.

For me i doesn't mather if it works with maven or manually as long as i can run the tests / compile its ok.

Is there anyone who also had problem with this?

Thanks anyway!