diff --git a/product/plugins/com.jboss.jbds.product/pom.xml b/product/plugins/com.jboss.jbds.product/pom.xml
index b742513..31600e1 100644
--- a/product/plugins/com.jboss.jbds.product/pom.xml
+++ b/product/plugins/com.jboss.jbds.product/pom.xml
@@ -38,56 +38,48 @@
 				<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>${maven.antrun.plugin.version}</version>
 				<executions>
+          <!-- <execution>
+            <id>clean-about-mapping</id>
+            <phase>clean</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>run</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <tasks>
+                <copy file="${basedir}/about.mappings.clean" tofile="${basedir}/about.mappings" overwrite="true" verbose="true"/>
+              </tasks>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution> -->
 					<execution>
 						<id>process-about-mapping</id>
-						<phase>package</phase>
+						<phase>process-resources</phase>
 						<goals>
 							<goal>run</goal>
 						</goals>
 						<configuration>
 							<tasks>
-								<!-- can test this script by passing in different values, eg., 
-									mvn clean verify -DBundle-Version=6.0.0.Alpha2-v20120906-1845-B303
-								-->
-								<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml" />
-								<property file="${project.build.directory}/MANIFEST.MF" />
-								<echo level="debug">Bundle-Version = ${Bundle-Version}</echo>
-								<echo level="debug">project.build.finalName = ${project.build.finalName}</echo>
+                <!-- [echo] buildQualifier = Beta2-v20130528-2036, project.version = 7.0.0-SNAPSHOT, BUILD_ALIAS=Beta2 -->
+                <echo level="debug">buildQualifier = ${buildQualifier}, project.version = ${project.version}, BUILD_ALIAS=${BUILD_ALIAS}</echo>
 
-								<!-- JBDS-2251 reorder the qualifiers; reorder the regex matches too -->
-								<propertyregex override="true" property="product.releaseNumber"
-									input="${Bundle-Version}" regexp="([0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9])\.([^-]+)-(.+)$"
-									select="\1.\2" />
+								<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml" />
+                <propertyregex override="true" property="product.releaseNumber" input="${project.version}.${BUILD_ALIAS}" regexp="-SNAPSHOT" replace="" />
                 <echo level="info">product.releaseNumber = ${product.releaseNumber}</echo>
 
-								<propertyregex override="true" property="product.buildQualifier"
-									input="${Bundle-Version}" regexp="([0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9])\.(.+)"
-									select="\2" />
-								<echo level="info">product.buildQualifier = ${product.buildQualifier}</echo>
+                <echo level="info">buildQualifier = ${buildQualifier}</echo>
 
-								<!-- JBDS-2251 reorder the qualifiers; reorder the regex matches too -->
-								<propertyregex override="true" property="product.buildTimeStamp"
-									input="${product.buildQualifier}" regexp=".+-v([0-9]+-[0-9]+).*"
-									select="\1" />
+								<propertyregex override="true" property="product.buildTimeStamp" input="${buildQualifier}" regexp=".+-v([0-9]+-[0-9]+).*" select="\1" />
                 <echo level="info">product.buildTimeStamp = ${product.buildTimeStamp}</echo>
 
-								<copy todir="${project.build.directory}" filtering="true">
-									<fileset dir="${basedir}">
-										<include name="about.mappings" />
-									</fileset>
-									<filterset>
-										<filter token="product.releaseNumber" value="${product.releaseNumber}" />
-										<filter token="product.buildQualifier" value="${product.buildQualifier}" />
-										<filter token="product.buildTimeStamp" value="${product.buildTimeStamp}" />
-									</filterset>
-								</copy>
-								<zip update="yes"
-									destfile="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.jar">
-									<zipfileset dir="${project.build.directory}">
-										<include name="about.mappings" />
-									</zipfileset>
-								</zip>
+                <mkdir dir="${project.build.directory}"/>
+                <echo file="${project.build.directory}/about.mappings"># about.mappings
+# contains fill-ins for about.properties
+# java.io.Properties file (ISO 8859-1 with "\" escapes)
+# This file does not need to be translated.
 
+0=${product.releaseNumber}
+1=${buildQualifier}
+2=${product.buildTimeStamp}
+</echo>
 							</tasks>
 						</configuration>
 					</execution>