Does maven 2 really support dependencies of type "war"?

[Jason Chaffee]

If I try to add a dependency of type war to my pom, I get the following Error (note: I can remove <type>war</type> and it doesn’t fail): [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - --- [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).   Project ID: webaoo:webapp POM Location: C:\workspace\webapp\pom.xml Validation Messages:     [0]  'dependencies.dependency.version' is missing for common-assets:common-assets   Reason: Failed to validate POM   [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - --- [INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Failed to validate POM        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:365)         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:278)         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:115)         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:249)         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:39)         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:25)         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)         at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)         at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)         at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)         at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.InvalidProjectModelException: Failed to vali date POM         at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.processProjectLog ic(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:781)         at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMave nProjectBuilder.java:631)         at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFi le(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:303)         at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMave nProjectBuilder.java:274)         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:515)         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:447)         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:351)         ... 11 more     Jason Chaffee Software Architect/Server Team Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : 415.380.6316 Cell: 415.637.8061