Hi Claus, Thanks for your quick reply.
In the meanwhile I found what the problem ist and I went across another way which maybe others in the forum could be interested in: The problem was the 'S' in https of the staging repository, in contrast to official maven repos which are pure 'http', so that there's a SSL-Handshake required for maven before downloading the artifacts. So here the steps I went through which solved my problem: - on my browser went to the address 'https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecamel-023/' and downloaded the apache camel public-key in CRT format on some temp directory - used the keytool command to convert it to a JKS-keystore, like keytool -alias apache -import -file c:/temp/repository.apache.org.crt -keystore apache.jks setting the password "test12" - and as the last step set MAVEN_OPTS to MAVEN_OPTS=-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=C:/temp/trust.jks -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=test12 And maven did successfully download all the 2.8.0 release artifacts. The problem that I' facing now is that most of my test-cases fail because Camel is not able to find my *TypeConverter*. I saw also the discussion here as well, however I don't run in OSGi but JBoss 5.1.0! http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-Apache-Camel-2-8-0-td4584312.html Please let me know if you wanna have more information about my setup. Regards, Babak -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/Some-indication-on-when-2-8-0-could-be-released-tp4585340p4590115.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.