Some of you may have noticed that trunk has an issue with Maven 2.2.1 it ends up with: *********************************************** [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). Project ID: org.gatein:gatein-dep Reason: POM 'org.gatein:gatein-dep' not found in repository: Unable to download the artifact from any repository org.gatein:gatein-dep:pom:1.0.3-Beta01 from the specified remote repositories: central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2), __jpp_repo__ (file:///usr/share/maven2/repository) for project org.gatein:gatein-dep *********************************************** And it seems to work fine with Maven 3. The thing is related to the fact that gatein consumes a component which includes gatein-dep with the scope "import", it seems to be exactly the same issue as: http://maven-users.828.n2.nabble.com/Resolving-dependencies-of-type-pom-t... Also it may have been related to: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3553 (Funny to see that the reporter and assignee are Red Hat employees, and 1 of the commenter is our famous Arnaud :)) So as a workaround I added the dependency in the parent pom which solves the issue (Not committed yet as I'm also fixing other stuff). Thomas