Question: If I want to define a class in a common assembly, to be utilized by both a silverlight application and an asp.net web application or other type of app, can I define the data type in a standard class library or should I use a silverlight class library?

Answer: 
You can use the [maven help plugin](http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-help-plugin/) to tell you the contents of your user and global settings files.

```
mvn help:effective-settings

```

will ask maven to spit out the **combined global and user settings**.
This is the configuration file for Maven. It can be specified at two levels:

1. User Level. This settings.xml file provides configuration for a single user, 
 and is normally provided in ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml.

```
          NOTE: This location can be overridden with the CLI option:

          -s /path/to/user/settings.xml

```
2. Global Level. This settings.xml file provides configuration for all Maven
 users on a machine (assuming they're all using the same Maven
 installation). It's normally provided in 
 ${maven.home}/conf/settings.xml.

```
          NOTE: This location can be overridden with the CLI option:

          -gs /path/to/global/settings.xml

```