I've just managed to fix one of these issues, where none of the repositories listed in our pom had pom files to accompany the woodstox distribution. I added http://repository.codehaus.org to the local sdo/impl/pom.xml (and incidentally updated the groupId at the same time)
This allowed my build to progress, but now it is failing in the same way on the jaxen artifact Downloading: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/emf/maven2/jaxen/jaxen/1.1-beta-10/jaxen-1.1-beta-10.pom [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). Project ID: jaxen:jaxen Reason: Error getting POM for 'jaxen:jaxen' from the repository: Error transferring file jaxen:jaxen:pom:1.1-beta-10 from the specified remote repositories: apache.snapshots (http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository), apache.ws.m1.snapshots (http://ws.zones.apache.org/repository), eclipse.emf (http://download.eclipse.org/tools/emf/maven2), central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2), apache.incubator (http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository/) So there are two points here. One is thaat my local change in sdo/impl may need either replicating elsewhere or raising up the project hierarchy so that it affects other woodstox dependencies. The other is that I need a similar fix for jaxen. Any pointers as to why these failures are happening now? Regards, Kelvin.