Kludge to get things to worked after flipping to system scoped deps. The issue is something isn't picking these up and copying to ${openejb.home}/lib.
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ee7762d..07044ab 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -788,6 +788,20 @@
               <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
             </goals>
             <configuration>
+              <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
+              <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
+              <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
+              <excludeTransitive>true</excludeTransitive>
+              <includeArtifactIds>openejb-lite,activemq-client,activemq-client,tsharness,cts,whitebox,dbprocedures,geronimo-mail,openejb-derbynet,derby,derbynet,derbyclient,webdeployer</includeArtifactIds>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <id>copy-dependencies-tomee-lib</id>
+            <phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
               <outputDirectory>${openejb.home}/lib</outputDirectory>
               <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
               <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>