I'd recommend contacting the izpack mailing list with this issue.
Maybe someone already has a decent pom of an up to date version,
which can be pushed to the central maven repo.
PS: there is also an issue of an izpack maven2 plugin in
mojo.codehaus.org's JIRA. Also for maven1 I wrote one at
The izpack poms has some issues:
1. the dependencies
dependency/
/dependencies causes mvn 2.0.6 to call the pom invalid.
2. 3.8.0 is old
3. The biggest pain is none of the packages contains the classes from
the izpack-events.jar so if you write plugins there is no way to