RE: how to set environment variables

seems there's really no easy way to set env vars directly in general I think that this is ok and you should not set env vars directly, but I have a good exception to this rule: it is described in the paragraph "Using Saxon (but not as default)" of http://martin-trummer.blogspot.com/2009/11/wysiw

problem with 2 snapshot repositories with the same groupID?

I have a running configuration which uses: org.codehaus.mojo:hibernate3-maven-plugin everything works fine. but now I want to use another plugin from org.codehaus.mojo: the maven-buildnumber-plugin: http://commons.ucalgary.ca/projects/maven-buildnumber-plugin/howto.html thus I must add another p