After commenting out the line in build.properties: #exclude.webapp.samples=true
... package-samples: Building jar: /old/home/jeff/homeoverflow/apache/xml/c2/build/cocoon-2.1-dev/cocoon-samples.jar prepare-webapp-samples: Copying 1 file to /old/home/jeff/homeoverflow/apache/xml/c2/build/webapp/WEB-INF/lib Reading: /old/home/jeff/homeoverflow/apache/xml/c2/build/webapp/samples/sitemap.xmap BUILD FAILED file:///old/home/jeff/homeoverflow/apache/xml/c2/build.xml:595: IOException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /old/home/jeff/homeoverflow/apache/xml/c2/build/webapp/samples/sitemap.xmap (No such file or directory) The cocoon-samples.jar doesn't contain anything either. If it's work in progress that's cool - I'll add a <fail> stating as much. --Jeff