Spring books are needed?

[RobertGloverJr]

I just noticed the following new passage in the Spring 3.0.3 documentation:

The samples have been improved and updated to take advantage of the new features in Spring 3.
Additionally, the samples have been moved out of the source tree into a dedicated SVN repository
available at:
https://anonsvn.springframework.org/svn/spring-samples/
As such, the samples are no longer distributed alongside Spring 3 and need to be downloaded separately
from the repository mentioned above. However, this documentation will continue to refer to some
samples (in particular Petclinic) to illustrate various features.

However, when I try to use Eclipse 3.4 (behind a firewall) to do a Maven...checkout Maven Projects from SCM) I get the following error message:

7/21/10 9:41:46 AM EDT: Checkout error; Checkout error; RA layer request failed

svn: OPTIONS of 'https://anonsvn.springframework.org/svn/spring-samples/petclinic

/trunk': could not connect to server (https://anonsvn.springframework.org)

I have eclipse configured correctly in terms of setting the proxy. In other words, I am able via eclipse to do eclipse update and to use m2Eclipse to build other maven project hosted in a local subversion.

[RobertGloverJr]

As a workaround, I tried using ToirtoisSVN to check out https://anonsvn.springframework.org/...tclinic/trunk/
but it fails with this error. (Note I am behind a corporate firewall):

Command: Checkout from https://anonsvn.springframework.org/svn/spring-samples/petclinic/trunk, revision HEAD, Fully recursive, Externals included  
Error: OPTIONS of   
Error: 'https://anonsvn.springframework.org/svn/spring-samples/petclinic/trunk': could   
Error: not connect to server (https://anonsvn.springframework.org)  
Finished!: