diff --git a/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/pom.xml b/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/pom.xml
index 53f7694a9..9e419ca48 100644
--- a/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-base/archiva-xml-tools/pom.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@
       <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>dom4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>dom4j</artifactId>