Recent OpenJDK container images (UBI9 versions 1.15 and upwards; UBI8 version 1.16 and upwards, both released in 2023-06-06)  upgraded the Maven component to 3.8, which disabled the use of (insecure) HTTP maven repositories by default. Some customers may rely on using HTTP repositories.

There is a workaround: one can specify a Maven Mirror that matches each maven repository using HTTP.

This can be achieved with the OpenJDK containers by specifying a set of environment variables, such as MAVEN_MIRRORS, and corresponding *_MAVEN_MIRROR_OF, *_MAVEN_MIRROR_URL

These variables are listed in the Reference tables in the existing document "Using OpenJDK ? source-to-image for OpenShift" (e.g. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openjdk/11/html/using_openjdk_11_source-to-image_for_openshift/reference-s2i-openshift#s2i-openshift-config-env ) but they are quite complex and I think might need to be separately explained.