Having shamelessly cribbed various maven tricks from CXF into some other project, I recently learned something. Maven 'builds' a parent project before building its children. As a result, it's somewhat unclear why the cxf distribution works at all.
I propose to split it, moving bundle and manifest either up to top-level or to be children of a new directory, so that distribution can just depend on them and the order of build operations will be clear.
