The Subsystems subproject uses some unreleased and difficult to find equinox artifacts. There's a profile to download them automatically like this: mvn clean install -Pfetch-external The normal build is now in the default profile so if you are running any other profiles you will need mvn clean install -Pdefault, PLEASE if you change the version of these jars used in subsystems UPDATE THE DOWNLOAD INFO in the subsystem root pom. The downloader is from here: http://code.google.com/p/maven-external-dependency-plugin/