Just for clarity, I am not sure it is a CDK problem. I gave another pom.xml with the same file, that does not depend on the CDK. Of course, it may still depend on the same library as the CDK does. I just gave libcdk-java as one example where I ran into the problem.
I just ran 'mvn clean install' against four other projects, and they *all* give the file. I think it's Maven itself that depends on this library. I apologize for the misleading bug report title, but you can also reproduce it with just this: mkdir foo cd foo mvn archetype:generate Egon