Hi Michael, Many thanks for your reply - You were correct about the metadata. I've since managed to convince my organisation to give me an environment that has internet access and which can support a repository manager (Nexus). I'm now using the cached version of the repository created by Nexus and then using it again to serve this cache in the corporate network as a hosted repository and it seems to work great. Thanks for your assistance and my apologies to the list for the double post. Kind Regards, Ross. -------------------------------------------- >I may be talking out a hole but check this out...>>The release version along >with version range information comes from metadata... if you created>your >internal repository in a way other than using the deploy plugin then you won't >have metadata.>If you are copying your local repository aka the artifact cache >then you don't have 'maven-metadata.xml'>in the correct place. you have cache >copies of the metadata named central-maven-metadata.xml...>if you only used >central to build your local cache then you could just rename >centra-maven-metadata...>or you could just use a repository manager given you >seem to have the requirement for it.>hope that helps.. _________________________________________________________________ Cut through the jargon: find a PC for your needs. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/130777504/direct/01/