These jars are pulled in by datanucleus which is a dependency of hive-metastore.
The datanucleus project manages its own repositories for these jars: http://www.datanucleus.org/downloads/maven2 chris From: Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com<mailto:edlinuxg...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012 8:56 AM To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: How is it that every hive release in maven depends on http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.hive/hive-metastore/0.9.0 javax.jdo<http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.jdo> jdo2-api<http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.jdo/jdo2-api> 2.3-ec 2.3-ec is not in maven central. All our poms seem to reference this. What is the deal here?