As I said, this isn't the issue, but you probably still want to apply this:
[alr@localhost trunk]$ svn di core/src/
Index: core/src/main/java/org/jboss/mcann/AnnotationRepository.java
===================================================================
--- core/src/main/java/org/jboss/mcann/AnnotationRepository.java (revision 104694)
+++ core/src/main/java/org/jboss/mcann/AnnotationRepository.java (working copy)
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
static final String MCANN_METADATA_BINARY = "mcann.ser";
/** The full McAnn file path */
- static final String MCANN_PATH = "META-INF" + MCANN_METADATA_BINARY;
+ static final String MCANN_PATH = "META-INF/" + MCANN_METADATA_BINARY;
/**
* Merge repositories.