I've added this as a comment on http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CONTINUUM-413 but since several people are having the problem, I thought I'd tell the list.
The correct answer is, change continuum's run.bat to begin: @echo off set MAVEN_TERMINATE_CMD=on then add this one line to the end of maven.bat: if "%MAVEN_TERMINATE_CMD%" == "on" exit %ERRORLEVEL% I've tested this solution, it works under winXP, maven 1.0.2. Hope this helps, Baz
