In order to build commons-jci please use subversion to check it out via svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/jci/trunk/ You need to have maven 2.0.x installed. All you need to do is to call mvn clean install Releases are done with mvn -Prelease release:prepare mvn -Prelease release:perform It is suggested to be using a ssh and gpg agent for the release process.
