> Could anyone with more Maven knowledge help me debug this build issue, or at > least give me some pointers on where to look?
That's a simple thing to fix: You have added the dependencies to the "dependencyManagement" section. That just tells other modules that use this pom "Hey, if you want one of these dependencies I've already configured everything for you so you don't have to specify a version or the excludes.". But it is a "template" you have to add those dependencies to a <dependency> section somewhere. At the moment the easiest thing to do (as we'll move around the maven stuff anyway) is to just move all the dependencies you've defined in the top-level pom to the core/pom.xml file's <dependency> section[1] I hope that helps. Cheers, Lars [1] http://github.com/hammer/hbase-trunk-with-avro/blob/trunk/core/pom.xml#L162
