OK. Problem solved. One of my (sub) modules was not a descendent of the root pom (it had no parent specified)...hence no scm connection found for this sub module.
Cheers Rob Rob Lintern/CanWest/IBM 19/02/2007 10:52 AM To users@maven.apache.org cc Subject Missing required setting: scm connection Hi All, Can anybody think of a reason why my release:prepare command has suddenly started to complain ... "Missing required setting: scm connection or developerConnection must be specified." I still have a <scm><connection> defined in my root pom. I've also tried specifying -DconnectionURL on the command line with no success. I've tried 2 different machines, with 2 different users, and two different connection urls. Both of these have worked fine for me before today. Cheers, Rob