--- While trying to pull in dependencies for the sikulixapi ... not sure, what you are doing here, but ... having a Maven project with this pom 4.0.0 com.sikulix MavenTest 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT jar UTF-8 1.7 1.7 com.sikulix sikulixapi 1.1.0 simply works as expected: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Building MavenTest 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/sikulix/sikulixapi/1.1.0/sikulixapi-1.1.0.pom Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/sikulix/sikulixapi/1.1.0/sikulixapi-1.1.0.pom (6 KB at 5.7 KB/sec) Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/sikulix/sikulixlibsmac/1.1.0/sikulixlibsmac-1.1.0.pom Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/sikulix/sikulixlibsmac/1.1.0/sikulixlibsmac-1.1.0.pom (3 KB at 15.7 KB/sec) Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/sikulix/sikulixapi/1.1.0/sikulixapi-1.1.0.jar Downloading: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/sikulix/sikulixlibsmac/1.1.0/sikulixlibsmac-1.1.0.jar Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/sikulix/sikulixapi/1.1.0/sikulixapi-1.1.0.jar (1107 KB at 868.1 KB/sec) Downloaded: http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/sikulix/sikulixlibsmac/1.1.0/sikulixlibsmac-1.1.0.jar (4853 KB at 1173.9 KB/sec) --- maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1:clean (default-clean) @ MavenTest --- --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) @ MavenTest --- [debug] execute contextualize Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources. Copying 1 resource --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) @ MavenTest --- Compiling 1 source file to /Users/raimundhocke/NetBeansProjects/MavenTest/target/classes --- ${sikulix.libs} this is resolved during Maven processing by the section: Windows windows sikulixlibswin Unix unix sikulixlibslux Mac mac sikulixlibsmac --- ${sikulix.deploy.target} ... is not relevant at usage time, since no deployment is done here. so please be more specific about the problems you have.