parent pom should never allow skipTests to prevent download of required libraries --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBIDE-21232 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-21232 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Bug Components: build, forge, hibernate, openshift Affects Versions: 4.3.1.Beta1, 4.4.0.Alpha1 Reporter: Nick Boldt Assignee: Denis Golovin Fix For: 4.3.1.Beta2, 4.4.0.Alpha1 {quote} {quote}I think at this time obviously we have to change maven-dependency-plugin declaration in *parent/pom.xml#build/pluginManagement* to never skip downloading dependencies, because it is most common use case. After it is done we can remove unnecessary *<skip>false</skip>* throughout the projects.{quote} Yes - your conclusion matches mine on the jira and what mistria suggestion for fixes and with my updates handles. Can you make it happen ? :) {quote} If there are libs for (2) and (3) downloaded from external URL using download-maven-plugin/maven-download-plugin we should probably move them to locus.{quote} Main problem I know is forge, hibernate and openshift afaik. forge and openshift would not be able to move very fast if we moved their libs for Locus. Hibernate - we don't actually want/intend to expose the internal apis of hibernate so not sure if pushing all variations of hibernate into Locus is such a good idea....but it could be considered. One thing that might be worth looking for are those bundling mockito or other testing libs that we might already have put into locus or use from orbit so these are not even relevant anymore.{quote}