I made the following changes to the pom.xml. I had to use 1.0.1B of JTA because it was available on the Sun repo. Hopefully that won't cause an issue.
- set exclude on *.java in resource definitions for core and compat - added java.net repository definition and set jta to 1.0.1B. Not the latest but it compiles and passes all tests - added sources plugin to core and compat so that they now produce sources jars during the verify phase. B