My working minimal pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.mycompany.projectgroup</groupId> <artifactId>projectname</artifactId> <version>01.03.03-00</version> <build> </build></project>

(c) http://habrahabr.ru/post/126966/