diff --git a/deploy/plugin.jelly b/deploy/plugin.jelly
index ba1c7151..fc4c3020 100644
--- a/deploy/plugin.jelly
+++ b/deploy/plugin.jelly
@@ -142,20 +142,33 @@
       <j:set var="mavenRepoLocal" value='${context.getVariable("maven.repo.local")}'/>
       <ant:mkdir dir="${todir}"/>
       <ant:copy todir="${todir}" flatten="true">
-        <ant:fileset dir="${mavenRepoLocal}">
-          <!-- FIXME: should use pom.artifacts -->
-          <j:forEach var="dep" items="${pom.dependencies}">
-            <ant:include name="${dep.artifactDirectory}/${dep.type}s/${dep.artifact}"/>
-          </j:forEach>
+        <!-- grab list of excludedItems up front -->
+        <j:if test="${excludes != ''}">
+          <!-- The excludes are a list of dep ids -->
+          <util:tokenize var="excludeItems" delim=",">${excludes}</util:tokenize>
+        </j:if>
+        
+        <!-- 
+         !   for each artifact, see if it is excluded. If not, add a fileset
+         !   to the copy
+         !--> 
+        <j:forEach var="lib" items="${pom.artifacts}">
+          <j:set var="excluded" value="false"/>
           <j:if test="${excludes != ''}">
-            <!-- The excludes are a list of dep ids -->
-            <util:tokenize var="excludeItems" delim=",">${excludes}</util:tokenize>
+            <!-- The excludes are a list of dep ids, check if this id is in the list -->
             <j:forEach var="exclude" items="${excludeItems}">
-              <j:set var="depToExclude" value="${pom.getDependency(exclude)}"/>
-              <ant:exclude name="${depToExclude.artifactDirectory}/${depToExclude.type}s/${depToExclude.artifact}"/>
+              <!-- the exclude could be either the short name (e.g. artifactId), or the id -->
+              <j:if test="${(lib.dependency.id == exclude) or (lib.dependency.artifactId == exclude)}">
+                <j:set var="excluded" value="true"/>
+              </j:if>
             </j:forEach>
           </j:if>
-        </ant:fileset>
+          <j:if test="${!excluded}">
+            <ant:fileset dir="${lib.file.parent}">
+              <ant:include name="${lib.file.name}"/>
+            </ant:fileset>
+          </j:if>
+        </j:forEach>
       </ant:copy>
     </define:tag>