Taken from "BetterBuildsWithMaven": anonymous wrote : "Whether you use snapshots until the final release, or release betas as milestones along the way, you | should deploy them to a snapshot repository as is discussed in Chapter 7 of this book. This will ensure | that the beta versions are used in a range only if the project has declared the snapshot (or | development) repository explicitly." View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4141190#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...