Hi, As a follow up if anyone else has a similar problem, a solution for me is.....
Adding the following plug-in to the POM.xml located in the visual studio project folder will allow the maven build to get the file from your repository and copy it to <outputDirectory> + <destFileName> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.4</version> <executions> <execution> <id>copy</id> <phase>process-resources</phase> <goals> <goal>copy</goal> </goals> <configuration> <artifactItems> <artifactItem> <groupId> release.product.productname </groupId> <artifactId>propductmanger</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> <type>zip</type> <overWrite>true</overWrite> <outputDirectory>./lib</outputDirectory> <destFileName>MYFILE.zip</destFileName> </artifactItem> </artifactItems> <outputDirectory>./lib</outputDirectory> <overWriteReleases>true</overWriteReleases> <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> > >