I've found performing rm -rf ~/.m2/repository/com/sun/
really helped. It seems that there are some clashes of m2 poms around the place in different repos around the JAXB-API and JAXB-impl jars which can mess things up pretty well. Many thanks to Guillaume for helping me figure that out on IM :) -- James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/