Hi Max, thanks for you comment. It is surprise for me that the Portlet Plugin is actually there. I must admit that these <fix>es were just a "needs to be there" black box for me and that I have never looked what's inside. I have no information that we rely on Portlet Plugin in any way but by the same token it is quite unclear to me what the Portlet Plugin is supposed to do. I thought Portlet Plugin is only able to create old-style non-maven portlet projects. I'll remove that <fix> and see what happens.