Did you run a clean after the change to make sure the bogus filtered resources got copied again properly?
not sure what you mean by bogus, but I did this: mvn clean package
Sorry, but I'm not sure I can help much more as that's inside the custom test cases.
The thing is that the problem disappears completely when the filters are removed - the JUnit tests all pass when I remove the filters. So my guess is that something is happening in maven when the filters run which affects the interaction with the 'surefire' plugin in some way Just FYI, we are using commons IOUtils in the tests. I'll try to track down the exact cause. If you're sure that the pom is right (based on the cookbook example), then the problem must be in the structure of the application, or something else that only affects the build when filtering is true Thanks so far Kev --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]