diff --git a/its/core-integration-testing-plugins/maven-it-plugin-project-interpolation/pom.xml b/its/core-integration-testing-plugins/maven-it-plugin-project-interpolation/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..932cd68973
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-integration-testing-plugins/maven-it-plugin-project-interpolation/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright 2005-2006 The Apache Software Foundation.
+  ~
+  ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <parent>
+    <artifactId>maven-it-plugins</artifactId>
+    <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.plugins</groupId>
+    <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-project-interpolation</artifactId>
+  <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
+  <name>Maven Integration Test Plugin :: Project Interpolation</name>
+  <inceptionYear>2001</inceptionYear>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- Test the resolution of the version -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.its</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-integration-test-helper</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/its/core-integration-testing-plugins/maven-it-plugin-project-interpolation/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/coreit/CoreItMojo.java b/its/core-integration-testing-plugins/maven-it-plugin-project-interpolation/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/coreit/CoreItMojo.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a955d0fa86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-integration-testing-plugins/maven-it-plugin-project-interpolation/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/coreit/CoreItMojo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package org.apache.maven.plugin.coreit;
+
+/*
+ * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact;
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
+
+/**
+ * @goal touch
+ * 
+ * @phase process-sources
+ *
+ * @description Goal which cleans the build
+ */
+public class CoreItMojo
+    extends AbstractMojo
+{
+    public void execute()
+        throws MojoExecutionException
+    {
+        getLog().info( "Don't touch me!" );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/its/core-integration-testing-plugins/pom.xml b/its/core-integration-testing-plugins/pom.xml
index 2982e43aef..574f2b9ba5 100644
--- a/its/core-integration-testing-plugins/pom.xml
+++ b/its/core-integration-testing-plugins/pom.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     <module>maven-it-plugin-no-project</module>          
     <module>maven-it-plugin-packaging</module>      
     <module>maven-it-plugin-parameter-implementation</module>
+    <module>maven-it-plugin-project-interpolation</module>
     <module>maven-it-plugin-setter</module>        
     <module>maven-it-plugin-touch</module>    
     <module>maven-it-plugin-uses-properties</module>
diff --git a/its/core-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/integrationtests/MavenITmng2339BadProjectInterpolationTest.java b/its/core-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/integrationtests/MavenITmng2339BadProjectInterpolationTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f137d9a925
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/integrationtests/MavenITmng2339BadProjectInterpolationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package org.apache.maven.integrationtests;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.maven.integrationtests.AbstractMavenIntegrationTestCase;
+import org.apache.maven.it.Verifier;
+import org.apache.maven.it.util.ResourceExtractor;
+
+public class MavenITmng2339BadProjectInterpolationTest
+    extends AbstractMavenIntegrationTestCase
+{
+    public MavenITmng2339BadProjectInterpolationTest()
+        throws org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.InvalidVersionSpecificationException
+    {
+        super( "(2.0.8,)" ); // 2.0.9+
+    }
+
+    public void testitMNG2339()
+        throws Exception
+    {
+        File testDir = ResourceExtractor.simpleExtractResources( getClass(), "/mng-2339-badProjectInterpolation" );
+
+        Verifier verifier;
+
+        verifier = new Verifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() );
+
+        List cliOptions = new ArrayList();
+        cliOptions.add( "-Dversion=foo" );
+        verifier.setCliOptions( cliOptions );
+        verifier.executeGoal( "process-sources" );
+
+        verifier.verifyErrorFreeLog();
+        verifier.resetStreams();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/its/core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/mng-2339-badProjectInterpolation/pom.xml b/its/core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/mng-2339-badProjectInterpolation/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..984ba82c32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-integration-tests/src/test/resources/mng-2339-badProjectInterpolation/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng2339</groupId>
+  <artifactId>bad-project-interpolation</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-project-interpolation</artifactId>
+        <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>touch</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>