Upgrade to a maven-model 3.0.2 SNAPSHOT which allow us to read the POM from an URL with DOM4J It fixes the problem of relative entities. We have to check if it doesn't reduce significantly performances. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/maven-1/plugins/trunk@454415 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68