"alesj" wrote : "adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : I've managed to work around the problem locally by download the vfs beta-6 tag | | and installing it into my local repository, but this clearly isn't the correct solution. ;-) | Why is then MavenReleaseProcess 'cookbook' missing 'maven install/deploy' instructions? | | And probably this 'local install' should be also mentioned as a feasible workaround - although mvn error msg already proposes it. ;-) No. It's only a workaround if you want to build things from source. You can't expect everybody to checkout and build all libraries from source and then install them into a local repository (and repeat the process on every new version). We need them in our maven repository as binaries. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4102936#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...