maven dependency range

if you read about maven enforecer plugin documentation

you will come across

http://www.sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-version-ranges.html

and

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Dependency+Mediation+and+Conflict+Resolution

I somehow found out that, to allow for snapshots you can also specify [1.0.0-!,2.0.0)

notice the use of exclamation mark!

building apache tuscany 2.0

If you are building apache tuscany from source and you get errors about a bunch of jars and plugins missing in the maven repository you are pointing to, point your repository to http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/central

Note that the browser would redirect it to https but you can use http so that maven does not crib about certificates

EDIT: well apache changed their behavior to 302 my requests from http to https

you can now specify https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/central as the url

be sure to import the certificate before you want to see javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException

Also see http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-repository-ssl.html