From a clean machine (no galaxy components installed) I created a simple maven project (pom attached), mvn clean install first reported that it was missing abdera-client: Missing: ---------- 1) org.apache.abdera:abdera-client:jar:0.4.0-incubating I manually installed that artifact to maven repository: C:\code\test-galaxy-plugin>mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.abdera -DartifactId=abdera-client -Dversion=0.4.0-incubating -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=C: \Downloads\galaxy-integration-distribution-1.0-beta-3\abdera-client-0.4.0-incuba ting.jar I then receive an NoClassDefFoundError exception: [INFO] [galaxypublish:execute {execution: publish-artifacts}] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] org/apache/commons/httpclient/methods/RequestEntity [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/httpclient/methods/RequestEnt ity at org.mule.galaxy.maven.publish.PublishMojo.execute(PublishMojo.java:18 9) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPlugi nManager.java:443) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(Defa ultLifecycleExecutor.java:539) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLi fecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:480) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(Defau ltLifecycleExecutor.java:459) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHan dleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:311) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegmen ts(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:278) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLi fecycleExecutor.java:143) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:334) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:125) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:272) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 12 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Wed Apr 30 07:34:12 PDT 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: 10M/19M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On a previously build with a machine that was built from the galaxy trunk I received another NoClassDefFoundError exception about commons-logging. (see http://forums.muleforge.org/thread.jspa?threadID=45&tstart=0) mvn dependency:list [INFO] [dependency:list] [INFO] [INFO] The following files have been resolved: [INFO] junit:junit:jar:3.8.1:test