Well, I guess I should have known better!! In order to build Acegi from source, including the sample applications, I needed to use Maven 1.0.2 instead of Maven 2.0. Fortunately, Maven 1 uses the command maven to invoke it and Maven 2 uses mvn so you can run both on the same machine. Once I switched to Maven 1, the “how to build from source” page on the Acegi website worked flawlessly!
Here is the page I found that pointed me in the direction that I needed to use Maven 1 instead of Maven 2:Â forum entry
Now to test the .war files I was trying to create from the start!