dIon Gillard pom:validate doesn't work with <extend>. pom:validate doesn't work. Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them between plugins. The following dependencies are updated :

• dom4j v1.4-dev-8 -> v1.4
• maven v1.0 -> v1.0.2

Build and run plugin against the installed version of Maven remove empty pom:update goal Add missing xml-apis jar. Verify valid POM versions. Only "3" and "4" are currently allowed. Added support for validating different POM versions. Make pom:validate work again. The xerces upgrade broke jarv. Now using jing Upgrade to maven 1.0 beta 10 and dom4j 1.4 Upgrade to dom4j 1.4-dev-8 Bring back pom:validate