Getting the PIX application to run

The pix-demo of the Beginning Spring Framework 2 book seems to be nice to get to know all the technology we're planning to use a little bit better. However, it does not compile as-is, unfortunately, as I've received the error

The plugin 'org.codehaus.mojo:xfire-maven-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found

So I entered the build error I received in Google and voilà -- just one hit, but it was the right one. Thanks to user aneesha for providing the hint I needed:

You have to edit your pom.xml file in order to get the app to compile. I'm no pro with maven, so I don't quite get what was done, but here's my working version of pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><project>
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <groupId>wrox</groupId>
 <artifactId>pixweb</artifactId>
 <packaging>war</packaging>
 <version>0.0.1</version>
 <description></description>
 <build>
   <sourceDirectory>src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
   <testSourceDirectory>src/test/java</testSourceDirectory>
   <resources>
     <resource>
       <filtering>true</filtering>
       <directory>src/main/java</directory>
       <excludes>
         <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
       </excludes>
     </resource>
     <resource>
       <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
       <includes>
         <include>**/*.properties</include>
         <include>**/*.xml</include>
       </includes>
     </resource>
   </resources>
   <testResources>
     <testResource>
       <filtering>true</filtering>
       <directory>src/test/java</directory>
       <excludes>
         <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
       </excludes>
     </testResource>
     <testResource>
       <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
     </testResource>
   </testResources>
   <plugins>
     <plugin>
       <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
       <configuration>
         <source>1.5</source>
         <target>1.5</target>
       </configuration>
     </plugin>
     <plugin>
       <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
       <configuration>
         <wtpversion>1.0</wtpversion>
         <additionalBuildcommands>
           <buildcommand>org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.springbuilder</buildcommand>
         </additionalBuildcommands>
         <additionalProjectnatures>
           <projectnature>org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.springnature</projectnature>
         </additionalProjectnatures>
       </configuration>
     </plugin>
   <plugin>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
       <version>1.0-20061017.160413-3</version>
       <artifactId>xfire-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
          <execution>
             <goals>
                <goal>wsgen</goal>
             </goals>
          </execution>
       </executions>
       <configuration>
         <package>com.wrox.webservice.emailvalidation.client</package>
         <overwrtite>true</overwrtite>
         <generateServerStubs>false</generateServerStubs>
         <forceBare>false</forceBare>
         <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources</outputDirectory>
         <wsdls>
           <wsdl>http://ws.xwebservices.com/XWebEmailValidation/V2/XWebEmailValidation.wsdl</wsdl>
         </wsdls>
       </configuration>
     </plugin>
   </plugins>
 </build>
 <pluginRepositories>
  <pluginRepository>
     <id>Codehaus Snapshots</id>
     <url>http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/</url>
     <snapshots>
       <enabled>true</enabled>
     </snapshots>
     <releases>
       <enabled>false</enabled>
     </releases>
 </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
 <dependencies>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>taglibs</groupId>
     <artifactId>standard</artifactId>
     <version>${taglibs-standard-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
     <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
     <version>${jstl-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
     <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
     <version>${servlet-api-version}</version>
     <scope>provided</scope>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
     <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
     <version>${commons-fileupload-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
     <version>${spring-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-jpa</artifactId>
     <version>${spring-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
     <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
     <version>3.2.1.ga</version>
     <exclusions>
       <exclusion>
         <artifactId>jta</artifactId>
         <groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
       </exclusion>
     </exclusions>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>geronimo-spec</groupId>
     <artifactId>geronimo-spec-jta</artifactId>
     <version>1.0.1B-rc4</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId>
     <version>${spring-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
     <version>${spring-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-webflow</artifactId>
     <version>${spring-webflow-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-mock</artifactId>
     <version>${spring-version}</version>
     <scope>test</scope>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-jms</artifactId>
     <version>${spring-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>hsqldb</groupId>
     <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
     <version>${hsqldb-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.directwebremoting</groupId>
     <artifactId>dwr</artifactId>
     <version>${dwr-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>junit</groupId>
     <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
     <version>${junit-version}</version>
     <scope>test</scope>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
     <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
     <version>${commons-lang-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>log4j</groupId>
     <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
     <version>${log4j-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
     <artifactId>itext</artifactId>
     <version>1.4.8</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>rome</groupId>
     <artifactId>rome</artifactId>
     <version>0.9</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.xfire</groupId>
     <artifactId>xfire-aegis</artifactId>
     <version>${xfire-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.xfire</groupId>
     <artifactId>xfire-core</artifactId>
     <version>${xfire-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.xfire</groupId>
     <artifactId>xfire-spring</artifactId>
     <version>${xfire-version}</version>
     <exclusions>
       <exclusion>
         <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
       </exclusion>
     </exclusions>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.xfire</groupId>
     <artifactId>xfire-java5</artifactId>
     <version>1.2.5</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.xfire</groupId>
     <artifactId>xfire-generator</artifactId>
     <version>${xfire-version}</version>
     <scope>compile</scope>
     <exclusions>
       <exclusion>
         <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
       </exclusion>
     </exclusions>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.xfire</groupId>
     <artifactId>xfire-jaxws</artifactId>
     <version>${xfire-version}</version>
     <scope>compile</scope>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
     <artifactId>activemq-core</artifactId>
     <version>${activemq-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>fm.void.jetm</groupId>
     <artifactId>jetm</artifactId>
     <version>${jetm-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>fm.void.jetm</groupId>
     <artifactId>jetm-optional</artifactId>
     <version>${jetm-version}</version>
   </dependency>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>cglib</groupId>
     <artifactId>cglib-nodep</artifactId>
     <version>${cglib-version}</version>
   </dependency>
 </dependencies>
 <properties>
   <activemq-version>4.1.1</activemq-version>
   <spring-webflow-version>1.0.3</spring-webflow-version>
   <spring-version>2.0.5</spring-version>
   <junit-version>3.8.2</junit-version>
   <commons-lang-version>2.1</commons-lang-version>
   <dwr-version>2.0.1</dwr-version>
   <jstl-version>1.0</jstl-version>
   <taglibs-standard-version>1.1.1</taglibs-standard-version>
   <hsqldb-version>1.8.0.7</hsqldb-version>
   <servlet-api-version>2.5</servlet-api-version>
   <log4j-version>1.2.14</log4j-version>
   <commons-fileupload-version>1.1.1</commons-fileupload-version>
   <xfire-version>1.2.4</xfire-version>
   <jetm-version>1.2.1</jetm-version>
   <cglib-version>2.1_3</cglib-version>
 </properties>
</project>

Another thing: If you want the unit tests to succeed, you have to put a file called football.jpg into the folder src\test\resources. Otherwise, you will get an error when calling the unit tests.

By performing this action, I was able to run mvn test successfully. After downloading loads and loads of packages, of course :)