"jhalliday" wrote : Sorry Adrian, it's Friday and I'm doing my best impression of an ignorant idiot: What's a subproject and why would I want one? I just need someplace to put a couple of files. I think it's call a 'directory'? You mean a "dumping ground" :-) That's what varia is. A subproject is defined in here for the old build: http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/trunk/build/build.xml?... and here for the new build http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/trunk/jbossas/pom.xml?... The jbossas part of jboss-head (though originallly not intended for that purpose) is meant now to be the place where you integrate thirdparty components so you can see what their individual dependencies are instead of a build ball of mud like varia. For more of my opinion of varia, see the "VARIA MUST DIE" thread in the MC forum. ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4174557#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...