[Building XFire] Due to the many preferences of people regarding build systems, we seem to have ended up with 3: Ant, Maven 1.x, and Maven 2.x. Here is a quick lineup of what works and what doesn't with each build: Maven 2.0.2+: - Jars, bundled jar and distribution work correctly. Ant: - This build is the *least supported*, but will work most of the time. However, not all modules currently have ant builds. Use at your own risk. [Deploying Snapshots and Distributions] This should install the xfire jars and distribution to the Maven 1 and 2 repositories: $ mvn -Duser.name=yourusername deploy