I would try building from platform/trunks there seem to be issues building subsets of that. Caleb Thomas Hoeschele wrote:

Hallo,

I tried to build the Xwiki core with Maven but encountered the following error: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 6.626s [INFO] Finished at: Fri Aug 06 11:00:49 CEST 2010 [INFO] Final Memory: 4M/15M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project xwiki-core: Unable to get dependency i nformation for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-observation-local:jar:2.5-SNAPSHOT: Failed to process POM for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-observation-local:jar:2 .5-SNAPSHOT: Non-resolvable parent POM org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-observation :2.5-SNAPSHOT for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-observation-local:2.5-SNAPSHOT: Failed to resolve POM for org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-observation:2.5-SNAPSHOT due to Missing: ---------- 1) org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-observation:pom:2.5-SNAPSHOT ---------- 1 required artifact is missing.

for artifact: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-core-observation:pom:2.5-20100805.132738-18

from the specified remote repositories: xwiki-externals (http://maven.xwiki.org/externals, releases=true, snapshots=tr ue), xwiki-releases (http://maven.xwiki.org/releases, releases=true, snapshots=fals e), xwiki-snapshots (http://maven.xwiki.org/snapshots, releases=false, snapshots=t rue), maven2-repository.dev.java.net.2 (http://download.java.net/maven/2, releases=t rue, snapshots=true), central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2, releases=true, snapshots=false) -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e swit ch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please rea d the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ArtifactResolu tionException

Can somebody please be so kind and tell me what I have missed or done wrong? (the command used was "mvn package" to get the .jar file)

Thanks in advance Thomas