Once upon a time, in the distant past (Maven 2.0.5 and before), the instructions found on the Maven User Wiki (at http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Deploying+3rd+Party+Jars+With+WebDAV) had a section at the bottom that allowed us to modify our maven installation and allow command-line deployment of arbitrary artifacts using DAV. Since upgrading to Maven 2.0.6, that technique doesn't seem to work any more. The complaint is
NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/plexus/util/IOUtil Is there some way around this difficulty without inserting the webdav extension in a pom in the local directory? -- I'm just an unfrozen caveman software developer. I don't understand your strange, "modern" ways.