Index: C:/dev/ws/openaw/maven-1.1-mx/src/java/org/apache/maven/MavenUtils.java
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--- C:/dev/ws/openaw/maven-1.1-mx/src/java/org/apache/maven/MavenUtils.java	(revision 345138)
+++ C:/dev/ws/openaw/maven-1.1-mx/src/java/org/apache/maven/MavenUtils.java	(working copy)
@@ -17,22 +17,6 @@
  * ====================================================================
  */
 
-import com.werken.forehead.ForeheadClassLoader;
-import org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyContext;
-import org.apache.commons.jelly.expression.CompositeExpression;
-import org.apache.commons.jelly.expression.Expression;
-import org.apache.commons.jelly.expression.jexl.JexlExpressionFactory;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
-import org.apache.maven.jelly.JellyUtils;
-import org.apache.maven.jelly.MavenJellyContext;
-import org.apache.maven.project.Project;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils;
-import org.codehaus.plexus.util.CollectionUtils;
-
-import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
 import java.beans.IntrospectionException;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
@@ -55,6 +39,27 @@
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+
+import org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyContext;
+import org.apache.commons.jelly.expression.CompositeExpression;
+import org.apache.commons.jelly.expression.Expression;
+import org.apache.commons.jelly.expression.jexl.JexlExpressionFactory;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.apache.maven.jelly.JellyUtils;
+import org.apache.maven.jelly.MavenJellyContext;
+import org.apache.maven.project.Dependency;
+import org.apache.maven.project.Project;
+import org.apache.maven.repository.GenericArtifact;
+import org.apache.maven.verifier.DependencyVerifier;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.util.CollectionUtils;
+import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+
+import com.werken.forehead.ForeheadClassLoader;
+
 /**
  * Utilities for reading maven project descriptors, profile descriptors and
  * workspace descriptors.
@@ -207,9 +212,13 @@
 
             File parentPom = new File( pomToExtend );
             parentPom = parentPom.getCanonicalFile();
-            if ( !parentPom.exists() )
+            if ( !parentPom.exists() || pomToExtend.trim().endsWith("-SNAPSHOT.pom"))
             {
-                throw new FileNotFoundException( "Parent POM not found: " + parentPom );
+                parentPom = tryToDownloadPOM(parentContext, project, pomToExtend);
+                if (parentPom == null || !parentPom.exists() )
+                {
+                	throw new FileNotFoundException( "Parent POM not found: " + parentPom );
+                }
             }
 
             String parentPomPath = parentPom.getPath();
@@ -245,7 +254,49 @@
         return project;
     }
 
-    /**
+    private static File tryToDownloadPOM(MavenJellyContext parentContext, Project project, String pomToExtend) {
+    	//extract pattern from extend : ${maven.repo.local}/maven/poms/maven-1.0.1.pom
+    	String POMS_SEP = File.separator+"poms"+File.separator;
+    	pomToExtend = pomToExtend.trim();
+    	log.debug("Extending POM: "+pomToExtend);
+    	int index = pomToExtend.lastIndexOf(POMS_SEP);
+    	Dependency pomDep = new Dependency();
+    	if (index>0){
+    		String pomId = pomToExtend.substring(index+POMS_SEP.length(), pomToExtend.length()-".pom".length());
+    		String[] parts = pomId.split("-[0-9]+.*$");
+    		if (parts.length!=1){
+    			return null;
+    		}
+    		String pomArtifactId = parts[0];
+    		String pomVersion = pomId.substring(parts[0].length()+1);
+    		
+    		String groupId = pomToExtend.substring(0, index);
+    		int startIndex =  groupId.lastIndexOf(File.separator);
+    		groupId = groupId.substring(startIndex+1);
+    		pomDep.setId(groupId+":"+pomArtifactId);
+    		pomDep.setArtifactId(pomArtifactId);
+    		pomDep.setVersion(pomVersion);
+    		pomDep.setGroupId(groupId);
+    		pomDep.setType("pom");
+    	} else {
+    		return null;
+    	}
+		GenericArtifact artifact = new GenericArtifact(pomDep);
+		artifact.setPath(pomToExtend);
+		//create dir to download pom to
+		new File(pomToExtend).getParentFile().mkdirs();
+		//download pom
+		String pomDesc = pomDep.getGroupId()+"/"+pomDep.getTypeDirectory()+"/"+pomDep.getArtifact();
+		log.info("Trying to download parent POM: "+pomDesc);
+		boolean success = DependencyVerifier.getRemoteArtifact(parentContext, project, artifact);
+		if (!success){
+			log.error("Download of parent POM failed: "+pomDesc);
+			return null;
+		}
+		return new File(pomToExtend);
+	}
+
+	/**
      * This is currently used for the reactor but may be generally useful.
      *
      * @param directory the directory to scan for maven projects
Index: C:/dev/ws/openaw/maven-1.1-mx/src/java/org/apache/maven/verifier/DependencyVerifier.java
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--- C:/dev/ws/openaw/maven-1.1-mx/src/java/org/apache/maven/verifier/DependencyVerifier.java	(revision 345138)
+++ C:/dev/ws/openaw/maven-1.1-mx/src/java/org/apache/maven/verifier/DependencyVerifier.java	(working copy)
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@
  * ====================================================================
  */
 
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.maven.AbstractMavenComponent;
@@ -36,14 +43,6 @@
 import org.apache.maven.wagon.repository.Repository;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils;
 
-import java.io.File;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.HashSet;
-
 /**
  * Make sure that everything that is required for the project to build
  * successfully is present. We will start by looking at the dependencies
@@ -312,18 +311,21 @@
         }
     }
 
+    public boolean getRemoteArtifact(Artifact artifact ){
+    	return getRemoteArtifact(getProject().getContext(), getProject(), artifact);
+    }
+    
     /**
      * Retrieve a <code>remoteFile</code> from the maven remote repositories
      * and store it at <code>localFile</code>
+     * @param context 
      * @param artifact the artifact to retrieve from the repositories.
      * @return true if the retrieval succeeds, false otherwise.
      */
-    private boolean getRemoteArtifact( Artifact artifact )
+    public static boolean getRemoteArtifact(MavenJellyContext context, Project project, Artifact artifact )
     {
         boolean artifactFound = false;
 
-        MavenJellyContext context = getProject().getContext();
-
         ProxyInfo proxyInfo = null;
         if ( context.getProxyHost() != null )
         {