Using asSingleFile only works if you return a single file --------------------------------------------------------- Key: SHRINKRES-125 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/SHRINKRES-125 Project: ShrinkWrap Resolvers Issue Type: Feature Request Reporter: John Ament In this code example return Maven.resolver().offline().loadPomFromFile("pom.xml") .resolve(artifact) .withTransitivity().asFile()[0]; You should be able to replace asFile()[0] with asSingleFile, however it doesn't work since multiple files are actually returned.