diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index 46d0717..637bddf 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -26,6 +26,32 @@
          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">
 
+    <pluginRepositories>
+        <pluginRepository>
+            <id>jboss-plugin</id>
+            <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/</url>
+        </pluginRepository>
+    </pluginRepositories>
+
+    <repositories>
+        <repository>
+            <id>jboss</id>
+            <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/</url>
+        </repository>
+        <repository>
+            <id>jboss-thirdparty</id>
+            <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/thirdparty-releases/</url>
+        </repository>
+        <repository>
+            <id>jboss-deprecated</id>
+            <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/deprecated/</url>
+        </repository>
+        <repository>
+            <id>version99</id>
+            <url>http://version99.qos.ch/</url>
+        </repository>
+    </repositories>
+
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
     <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
@@ -134,7 +160,7 @@
                     <rules>
                         <requireJavaVersion>
                             <!-- require JDK 1.5 to run the build -->
-                            <version>[1.5,1.6)</version>
+                            <version>[1.5,)</version>
                         </requireJavaVersion>
                         <requireMavenVersion>
                             <!-- we need at least Maven 2.0.8 because of a bug fix affecting our antlr usage -->
@@ -449,13 +475,13 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-            <version>99.0-does-not-exist</version>
+            <version>99-empty</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-logging-api</artifactId>
-            <version>99.0-does-not-exist</version>
+            <version>99-empty</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <!-- / test-scoped dependencies for common testing dependencies -->
