file:// (which is highly likely to be the case), or the repository is
  not on a local filesystem, deployment will fail when offline.

** Testing mojos

  This can be a problem if the tests are more than simple unit tests;
  that is, if they require configuration of a server process, and
  subsequent testing in-container.

  Since we're only going to concern ourselves with states where localhost is

 files.

 For many of the more advanced features in Maven2 it is critical that POMs be available in the local repository.
 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.