be available. However, if that file:// url references a
        file-share, as in the case of an NFS or SMB mount, that will
        be unavailable.

  So, offline mode has several implications, some of which may not be
  altogether obvious:

  * Localhost may be unavailable. Therefore, even locally installed
    server processes which work by conversing over a port may fail.

  Currently, mojo configuration is done externally to the container, in the
  DefaultPluginManager in the maven-core API. In order to get from here to
  there, we need to do several things to add capability to the default
  configuration of plexus. This document will detail those changes.

Container Enhancements

* ExpressionEvaluator