This project needs the sesame build output in the local maven repository. Check out the head revision with svn checkout http://repo.aduna-software.org/svn/org.openrdf/sesame/trunk/ or a tagged version svn checkout http://repo.aduna-software.org/svn/org.openrdf/sesame/tags/ To build sesame, you will need to set some maven opts: export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -Xms512m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024"