Woodstox is now available in the maven repository under the groupId org.codehaus.woodstox.
The dependency in xfire-core pom should be changed from:
<dependency>
<groupId>woodstox</groupId>
<artifactId>wstx-asl</artifactId>
</dependency>
to:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.woodstox</groupId>
<artifactId>wstx-asl</artifactId>
</dependency>