forward-port of r1538333
plus lessons learnt from tiles-3.0.2 release


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tiles/framework/trunk@1538391 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
diff --git a/assembly/pom.xml b/assembly/pom.xml
index 4c968f9..c8b8f89 100644
--- a/assembly/pom.xml
+++ b/assembly/pom.xml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
       <extension>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
         <artifactId>wagon-ssh</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0</version>
+        <version>2.5</version>
       </extension>
     </extensions>
   </build>
diff --git a/src/site/apt/dev/release.apt b/src/site/apt/dev/release.apt
index d99e3be..6c8750c 100644
--- a/src/site/apt/dev/release.apt
+++ b/src/site/apt/dev/release.apt
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@
 
   To create a release you have to install:
 
-  * {{{http://java.sun.com/javase/6}Java 6.0}}. If you are using a newer
-  version of Java, it is suggested to <<change JAVA_HOME environment variable>>
-  when calling Maven, so it points to an instance of Java 6.0;
+  * {{{http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/index.html}Java 7}}. If you are using a newer
+  version of Java <<change JAVA_HOME environment variable>>
+  when calling Maven, so it points to an instance of Java 7;
 
-  * {{{http://maven.apache.org/}Maven 2.2 or 3}};
+  * {{{http://maven.apache.org/}Maven 3.0.5+}};
 
   * {{{http://www.gnupg.org/}GnuPG}};
 
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
   The plugin interactively will ask you the version to release, the Subversion
   tag to use and the next snapshot version. It is recommended to use the tag:
   <<tiles-X.X.X>>.
-  
+
   See also {{{http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html}the recommendations of the ASF}}.
 
 * Perform the Release
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@
 -----------------------------------
 mvn release:perform
 -----------------------------------
-  
-  It should compile and test everything, build and upload the artifacts and the website for the project. 
+
+  It should compile and test everything, build and upload the artifacts and the website for the project.
 
 * Close the staging repository
 
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@
 * Verify the uploaded assemblies
 
   * go to the destination directory on people.apache.org (cd /www/people.apache.org/builds/tiles/${version}).
-  
-  * check the presence of the 3 distributions (bin, doc and src), and their signature files (*.asc, *.md5, *sha1). 
+
+  * check the presence of the 3 distributions (bin, doc and src), and their signature files (*.asc, *.md5, *sha1).
 
 * Release the JIRA version
 
diff --git a/tiles-test-pom/tiles-test/pom.xml b/tiles-test-pom/tiles-test/pom.xml
index 1c0baa8..c9ed561 100644
--- a/tiles-test-pom/tiles-test/pom.xml
+++ b/tiles-test-pom/tiles-test/pom.xml
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
           <plugin>
               <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
               <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
-              <version>2.1-beta-1</version>
+              <version>2.4</version>
               <configuration>
                   <webResources>
                       <resource>