Required to get at trove:trove, a dependency of the VDF extension:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project shrinkwrap-extension-vdf: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.jboss.shrinkwrap:shrinkwrap-extension-vdf:jar:1.0.0-beta-6-SNAPSHOT: Failed to collect dependencies for [org.jboss.shrinkwrap:shrinkwrap-api:jar:1.0.0-beta-6-SNAPSHOT (compile), org.jboss.shrinkwrap:shrinkwrap-impl-base:jar:1.0.0-beta-6-SNAPSHOT (test), org.jboss.shrinkwrap:shrinkwrap-extension-vfs3:jar:1.0.0-beta-6-SNAPSHOT (provided), junit:junit:jar:4.8.2 (test), org.jboss:jboss-vfs:jar:3.0.0.CR5 (provided), org.jboss.deployers:jboss-deployers-vfs:jar:2.2.0.Alpha4 (provided), org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging-spi:jar:2.2.0.CR1 (compile), org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging-jdk:jar:2.2.0.CR1 (test), org.jboss.logmanager:jboss-logmanager:jar:1.2.0.CR1 (test), org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging-logmanager:jar:2.2.0.CR1 (test), org.jboss.threads:jboss-threads:jar:2.0.0.CR4 (test), org.jboss.threads:jboss-threads-metadata:jar:2.0.0.CR4 (test), org.jboss.reloaded:jboss-reloaded-vdf-bootstrap-minimal:jar:0.1.4 (test)]: Failed to read artifact descriptor for trove:trove:jar:2.1.1: Could not transfer artifact trove:trove:pom:2.1.1 from/to repository.jboss.org (http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/): Access denied to: http://repository.jboss.org/maven2/trove/trove/2.1.1/trove-2.1.1.pom -> [Help 1]

For users behind the VPN, this build will succeed, as it'll use the old Nexus location (redirects still work behind the JBoss VPN). Else this will fail. So put in place in the POM access to the new deprecated repo.