I'm trying to create a Hudson plugin. I issued:

$ mvn hpi:create
$ <edit pom.xml to set Hudson version to 1.352>
$ mvn hpi:run

When Hudson 1.352 starts I create a new M2 job which pulls over SVN from https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/maven-2/tags/maven-2.2.1/maven-core ... I also have automatically installed maven-2.2.1. I am able to build the project just fine using work/tools/*/bin/mvn in the checked out workspace.

Here's the console for the M2 project:

Started by user anonymous
Checking out a fresh workspace because /home/jesse/tmp/hudson/maven-columns/work/jobs/maven-core/workspace/maven-core doesn't exist
Checking out https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/maven-2/tags/maven-2.2.1/maven-core
A src
[ skipping many files ]
At revision 927118
Parsing POMs
ERROR: Failed to parse POMs
org.apache.maven.embedder.MavenEmbedderException: Cannot lookup required component.
at hudson.maven.MavenEmbedder.start(MavenEmbedder.java:731)
at hudson.maven.MavenUtil.createEmbedder(MavenUtil.java:181)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$PomParser.invoke(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:857)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$PomParser.invoke(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:786)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:747)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:729)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$RunnerImpl.parsePoms(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:531)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$RunnerImpl.doRun(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:391)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:416)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1243)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild.run(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:304)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:122)
Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.exception.ComponentLookupException: Component descriptor cannot be found in the component repository: org.apache.maven.project.MavenProjectBuilder.
at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:323)
at org.codehaus.plexus.embed.Embedder.lookup(Embedder.java:78)
at hudson.maven.MavenEmbedder.start(MavenEmbedder.java:695)
... 12 more
Finished: FAILURE