diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5926750a5ad33ac1caafceb161772300fe626afc..70c2f4b9db1b9c5081badb97f28e53ab11cf07c6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,23 +1,21 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!--
-  Copyright 2014 Global Crop Diversity Trust
-  
-  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-  
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-  
-  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-  limitations under the License.
+	Copyright 2014 Global Crop Diversity Trust
+
+	Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+	you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+	You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+	Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+	distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+	WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+	See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+	limitations under the License.
 -->
 
-<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"
->
+<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>org.genesys-pgr</groupId>
@@ -536,7 +534,7 @@
 					</execution>
 				</executions>
 				<configuration>
-					<!-- first check to see if you have locally modified files, and will 
+					<!-- first check to see if you have locally modified files, and will
 						fail if there are any. -->
 					<doCheck>false</doCheck>
 					<doUpdate>false</doUpdate>
@@ -670,8 +668,10 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 				<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>2.6</version>
 				<configuration>
-					<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
+					<!-- Let's require web.xml (JSP UTF8 compilation) -->
+					<failOnMissingWebXml>true</failOnMissingWebXml>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 			<plugin>
@@ -706,13 +706,13 @@
 						<id>output-docbook</id>
 						<phase>generate-resources</phase>
 						<goals>
-							<goal>process-asciidoc</goal>
+						<goal>process-asciidoc</goal>
 						</goals>
 						<configuration>
-							<backend>docbook</backend>
-							<doctype>book</doctype>
+						<backend>docbook</backend>
+						<doctype>book</doctype>
 						</configuration>
-					</execution> -->
+						</execution> -->
 				</executions>
 				<configuration>
 					<sourceDirectory>src/main/asciidoc</sourceDirectory>
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@
 		</resources>
 		<pluginManagement>
 			<plugins>
-				<!--This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse m2e settings 
+				<!--This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse m2e settings
 					only. It has no influence on the Maven build itself. -->
 				<plugin>
 					<groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
@@ -808,4 +808,15 @@
 			</plugins>
 		</pluginManagement>
 	</build>
+
+	<repositories>
+		<repository>
+			<id>central</id>
+			<url>https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2</url>
+		</repository>
+		<repository>
+			<id>snapshots</id>
+			<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
+		</repository>
+	</repositories>
 </project>