maven2: how do I get/set the location for the local .jar cache?

I'm trying to get the hibernate-sqlite project to work. I downloaded it and can run

mvn eclipse:clean

and

mvn eclipse:eclipse

like the instructions say. And I can import the project into Eclipse. But when I look at the project in Eclipse, it can't find the jars that Maven开发者_如何学Go has downloaded. Where does Maven put the .jars? I don't know where this is, if I knew I could set M2_HOME in eclipse and it would all work.

Linux: /home/<user>/.m2
Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\.m2

Also, you may want to look into using the m2eclipse plugin if you are doing Maven development with Eclipse.

I found it, maven looks in its settings.xml under

<settings><localRepository>{PathHere}</localRepository></settings>

which if not found, defaults to ~/.m2/repository as Taylor L's answer mentions.