User development, A new message was posted in the thread "EJB 3.0 tutorial build problem with Maven 2.2.1": http://community.jboss.org/message/527324#527324 Author : jaikiran pai Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/jaikiran Message: -------------------------------------------------------------- This error states that the Maven version which you are using (2.2.1) is not allowed for the project you are building (the tutorials). Within the tutorial pom.xml file we have set this restriction. The tutorials have been tested using Maven 2.0.9. The only reason why we added a upper limit to the Maven version is because we of our experience with Maven issues with every new Maven version. It doesn't mean the the tutorial +will+ not work against Maven 2.2.1, it just means we haven't tested it agains that version and hence don't know if it's going to run into issues.   You'll have to downgrade to Maven 2.0.9 (atleast for now) to get that running. But i think it makes sense to remove that restriction from the tutorials. I'll create a JIRA for that and fix it.   Maven works on the concept of "repositories" where it searches for dependent published artifacts. Any project like the tutorial you are building can depend on these published artifacts. The project has to point Maven to the right repositories. This can be done in two ways: 1) Either set it in the pom.xml (hierarchy) of the project you are building OR 2) Set in a global Maven settings.xml file (like explained here http://community.jboss.org/wiki/MavenSettings)   You don't have set it in every pom.xml. Either set it in the Maven settings.xml file or set it in TUTORIAL_HOME/build/pom.xml. Again, i think this should have been done in the tutorials by default so that users don't have to change it themselves. I'll create a JIRA for this too.   That's expected from Maven. As i explained earlier, Maven downloads the dependencies of projects from repositories. So if project A depends on project B, then while building project A, Maven downloads project B to your local file system. Project B internally might depend on project C, so this will lead to a long chain of transitive dependency downloads. So the first time you build a prooject through Maven it usually takes time to download all those dependencies. Once they are downloaded to your local file system, they won't be downloaded the next time.     By the way, if you are running into trouble with Maven and instead are more interested in just seeing EJB3 in action, then you can alternatively use the Ant approach of building the tutorials (which is explained in the tutorial docs). -------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to this message visit the message page: http://community.jboss.org/message/527324#527324