A short note to mention again that Packt are having a sale on eBooks until January 3 – which includes both books on Apache Maven. Check it out for some holiday reading!
Book
Apache Maven 2: Effective Implementation
Brett Porter, Maria Odea ChingCoverage of intermediate Apache Maven concepts with a focus on best practices and "tying it all together". Significant coverage of automated build and repository management concepts, illustrated using Apache Continuum and Apache Archiva.
Brett Porter 
Thanks for the hint but at now it seems the run at the shop is too much 🙂
Many Server errors at now.
thomas
Unfortunately not the first time that has happened 😦
are these ebooks?