Features like transitive dependencies and the new parent specification mechanism. The problem we run into is
 that currently we have information about a project scattered across the project.xml and the
 various properties files. What needs to be done is to encapsulate all of this in the POM.

 Typically users parameterize the use of plugins, or have custom values like ${user.name}

        // I'm fully aware that the file could just be moved using File.rename but
        // there are bugs in various JVM that have problems doing this across
        // different filesystem. So we'll incur the small hit to actually copy
        // here and be safe. jvz.
        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

        try {