Yeah, I'm afraid I agree totally with suspicion about the maven "auto-update" concept and had a very similar rant about it on the list previously.
In my mind it's analogous to revision control with Subversion, no one would ever accept a revision control system that "pushed" changes onto your working directory. You wait until a moment in time where you prepared to take a risk, and then you explicitly ask for an update. It's completely bogus for a system to push random untrusted changes onto you every time you do a build. At any rate, I'll wait until the maven plugin problem is resolved and try querying the ADS schema via JXplorer then... ciao
