Getting Sun Jars ---------------- Some jar files can not distributed via http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2 (see http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-coping-with-sun-jars.html for further information). As this project depends on them, following procedure might be a prerequisite to starting the build (It has to be done only for the local repository and only once): make an empty directory and download the jars from following urls: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/connector/download.html (Version 1.0) http://java.sun.com/products/jta (Version 1.0.1B) http://java.sun.com/products/jaas/index-10.html (Version 1.0.01) http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/downloads/index.html (Version 1.3.2) http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html (Version 1.0.2) http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/index.html (Some new and shiny version, then select ojdbc14.jar) Change into the directiory and execute following commands: mvn install:install-file -Dfile=connector.jar -DgroupId=javax.resource -DartifactId=connector -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar mvn install:install-file -Dfile=jta-1_0_1B-classes.zip -DgroupId=javax.transaction -DartifactId=jta -Dversion=1.0.1B -Dpackaging=jar mvn install:install-file -Dfile=jaas-1_0_01.zip -DgroupId=javax.security -DartifactId=jaas -Dversion=1.0.01 -Dpackaging=jar mvn install:install-file -Dfile=mail.jar -DgroupId=javax.mail -DartifactId=mail -Dversion=1.3.2 -Dpackaging=jar mvn install:install-file -Dfile=activation.jar -DgroupId=javax.activation -DartifactId=activation -Dversion=1.0.2 -Dpackaging=jar mvn install:install-file -Dfile=ojdbc14.jar -DgroupId=ojdbc -DartifactId=ojdbc -Dversion=14 -Dpackaging=jar This fills the jars into your local repository (the poms are comming from ibiblio. Above urls are copied from the pom files, if you get stuck have a look at them, there might be a hint in there).