Right now the SCA build with an empty local maven repository only works with Maven 2.0.5 not with Maven 2.0.6 or 2.0.7. I've raised TUSCANY-1676 for this, we've talked before about fixing this for 1.0 but not sure if we've time now so i've set the Fix level to Java-SCA-Next, please say if you think it needs to get done for 1.0.
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