I'm trying to understand the maven-release-plugin (version 2.0, CVS). The release-prepare works well. But I do not understand why the release-perform don't work?? I've tested the deploy feature and I can deploy artifacts to the remote repo without any exceptions.
[INFO] [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] [INFO] Failed to configure plugin parameters for: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.4
[INFO] check that the following section of the pom.xml is present and correct:
[INFO] <distributionManagement>
[INFO] <!-- use the following if you're not using a snapshot version. -->
[INFO] <repository>
[INFO] <id>repo</id>
[INFO] <name>Repository Name</name>
[INFO] <url>scp://host/path/to/repo</url>
[INFO] </repository>
[INFO] <!-- use the following if you ARE using a snapshot version. -->
[INFO] <snapshotRepository>
[INFO] <id>repo</id>
[INFO] <name>Repository Name</name>
[INFO] <url>scp://host/path/to/repo</url>
[INFO] </snapshotRepository>
[INFO] </distributionManagement>
[INFO]
[INFO] Cause: Class 'org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository' cannot be instantiated
[INFO] Maven execution failed, exit code: '1'