Failing to download the nightly build

Hi! I’m not sure if this goes here, but it did not seem like it fitted another forum group.



I have decided to try JME and since I’m an Eclipse user, tried to follow the instruction that explained how to tell Maven to use ANT do get the files. Unfortunately, the download seems to take for ever, and the downloaded file is corrupt. I get this message:


Buildfile: D:workspaceBlockWorldEnginebuild.xml

download_nightly_build:
[delete] Deleting directory c:tempjme3
[mkdir] Created dir: c:tempjme3
[get] Getting: http://jmonkeyengine.com/nightly/jME3_2011-06-26.zip
[get] To: c:tempjME3_nightly_build.zip
[unzip] Expanding: c:tempjME3_nightly_build.zip into c:tempjme3

BUILD FAILED
D:workspacetestbuild.xml:22: Error while expanding c:tempjME3_nightly_build.zip
java.util.zip.ZipException: archive is not a ZIP archive
at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.positionAtCentralDirectory(ZipFile.java:472)
at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.populateFromCentralDirectory(ZipFile.java:313)
at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:185)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.expandFile(Expand.java:170)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.execute(Expand.java:132)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:390)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:411)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:809)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)

Total time: 21 minutes 59 seconds


As you can see, it took over 20 minutes just to fail. I tried several times yesterday too with the same error.

Is the website always so slow? And is there any mirror site where I could get the file instead? It's not about getting the version from yesterday, but about getting any version at all. Is the content of the jar also part of the jMonkeyPlatform? Because the jMonkeyPlatform downloaded quickly so I installed it, but I don't actually want to use it.

http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/groups/jmonkeyplatform/forum/topic/issues-updating/