diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java
index 7d6ae961bf..4fef8af01a 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/IntegrationTestSuite.java
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ public class IntegrationTestSuite
         suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng3268MultipleDashPCommandLineTest.class );
         suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng3259DepsDroppedInMultiModuleBuildTest.class );
         suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng3220ImportScopeTest.class );
+        suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng3217InterPluginDependencyTest.class );
         suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng3106ProfileMultipleActivatorsTest.class );
         suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng3099SettingsProfilesWithNoPomTest.class );
         suite.addTestSuite( MavenITmng3052DepRepoAggregationTest.class );
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng3217InterPluginDependencyTest.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng3217InterPluginDependencyTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..08bba19121
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng3217InterPluginDependencyTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package org.apache.maven.it;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.it.Verifier;
+import org.apache.maven.it.util.ResourceExtractor;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+/**
+ * This is a test set for <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3217">MNG-3217</a>.
+ * 
+ * @author Benjamin Bentmann
+ * @version $Id$
+ */
+public class MavenITmng3217InterPluginDependencyTest
+    extends AbstractMavenIntegrationTestCase
+{
+
+    public MavenITmng3217InterPluginDependencyTest()
+    {
+        super( "[3.0-alpha-1,)" );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Verify that the dependency of plugin A on some plugin B does not influence the build of another module in the
+     * reactor that uses a different version of plugin B for normal build tasks.
+     */
+    public void testitMNG3217()
+        throws Exception
+    {
+        File testDir = ResourceExtractor.simpleExtractResources( getClass(), "/mng-3217" );
+
+        Verifier verifier = new Verifier( testDir.getAbsolutePath() );
+        verifier.setAutoclean( false );
+        verifier.deleteDirectory( "sub-1/target" );
+        verifier.deleteDirectory( "sub-2/target" );
+        verifier.deleteArtifacts( "org.apache.maven.its.mng3217" );
+        verifier.filterFile( "pom.xml", "pom.xml", "UTF-8", verifier.newDefaultFilterProperties() );
+        verifier.executeGoal( "validate" );
+        verifier.verifyErrorFreeLog();
+        verifier.resetStreams();
+
+        verifier.assertFilePresent( "sub-1/target/touch-1.txt" );
+        verifier.assertFilePresent( "sub-2/target/touch-2.txt" );
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng4026ReactorDependenciesOrderTest.java b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng4026ReactorDependenciesOrderTest.java
index c6ee36e759..eeeb597ae0 100644
--- a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng4026ReactorDependenciesOrderTest.java
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it/MavenITmng4026ReactorDependenciesOrderTest.java
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.util.List;
 
 /**
- * This is a test set for <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4023">MNG-4023</a>.
+ * This is a test set for <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4026">MNG-4026</a>.
  * 
  * @author Benjamin Bentmann
  * @version $Id$
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf5c6c5e89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you 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">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3217</groupId>
+  <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test :: MNG-3217</name>
+  <description>
+    Verify that the dependency of plugin A on some plugin B does not influence the build of another module in the
+    reactor that uses a different version of plugin B for normal build tasks.
+  </description>
+
+  <modules>
+    <module>sub-1</module>
+    <module>sub-2</module>
+  </modules>
+
+  <repositories>
+    <repository>
+      <id>maven-core-it</id>
+      <url>file:///M:/maven/core-it/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo</url>
+      <releases>
+        <checksumPolicy>ignore</checksumPolicy>
+      </releases>
+      <snapshots>
+        <enabled>false</enabled>
+      </snapshots>
+    </repository>
+  </repositories>
+  <pluginRepositories>
+    <pluginRepository>
+      <id>maven-core-it</id>
+      <url>file:///M:/maven/core-it/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo</url>
+      <releases>
+        <checksumPolicy>ignore</checksumPolicy>
+      </releases>
+      <snapshots>
+        <enabled>false</enabled>
+      </snapshots>
+    </pluginRepository>
+  </pluginRepositories>
+</project>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.1/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.1.jar b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.1/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.1.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..db21e265f1
Binary files /dev/null and b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.1/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.1.jar differ
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.1/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.1.pom b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.1/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.1.pom
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9af1061c83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.1/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.1.pom
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you 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">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3217</groupId>
+  <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-touch</artifactId>
+  <version>0.1</version>
+  <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test Plugin :: Touch</name>
+  <description>
+    A test plugin that creates an empty file.
+  </description>
+  <inceptionYear>2008</inceptionYear>
+
+  <distributionManagement>
+    <repository>
+      <id>maven-core-it</id>
+      <url>file:///${basedir}/repo</url>
+    </repository>
+  </distributionManagement>
+
+  <properties>
+    <maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <resources>
+      <resource>
+        <directory>.</directory>
+        <includes>
+          <include>pom.xml</include>
+          <include>src/**</include>
+        </includes>
+      </resource>
+      <resource>
+        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+      </resource>
+    </resources>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.2/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.2.jar b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.2/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.2.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9feb8e603
Binary files /dev/null and b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.2/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.2.jar differ
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.2/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.2.pom b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.2/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.2.pom
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..53409e493c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/0.2/maven-it-plugin-touch-0.2.pom
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you 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">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3217</groupId>
+  <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-touch</artifactId>
+  <version>0.2</version>
+  <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test Plugin :: Touch</name>
+  <description>
+    A test plugin that creates an empty file.
+  </description>
+  <inceptionYear>2008</inceptionYear>
+
+  <distributionManagement>
+    <repository>
+      <id>maven-core-it</id>
+      <url>file:///${basedir}/repo</url>
+    </repository>
+  </distributionManagement>
+
+  <properties>
+    <maven.test.skip>true</maven.test.skip>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <resources>
+      <resource>
+        <directory>.</directory>
+        <includes>
+          <include>pom.xml</include>
+          <include>src/**</include>
+        </includes>
+      </resource>
+      <resource>
+        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+      </resource>
+    </resources>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/maven-metadata.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/maven-metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..24d75e8acd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-it-plugin-touch/maven-metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><metadata>
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3217</groupId>
+  <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-touch</artifactId>
+  <version>0.1</version>
+  <versioning>
+    <latest>0.2</latest>
+    <release>0.2</release>
+    <versions>
+      <version>0.1</version>
+      <version>0.2</version>
+    </versions>
+    <lastUpdated>20090212184809</lastUpdated>
+  </versioning>
+</metadata>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-metadata.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-metadata.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..747b250ed3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/repo/org/apache/maven/its/mng3217/maven-metadata.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><metadata>
+  <plugins>
+    <plugin>
+      <name>Maven Integration Test Plugin :: Touch</name>
+      <prefix>ittouch</prefix>
+      <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-touch</artifactId>
+    </plugin>
+  </plugins>
+</metadata>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/sub-1/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/sub-1/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a70d2b86f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/sub-1/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you 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">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3217</groupId>
+    <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3217</groupId>
+  <artifactId>test-1</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test :: MNG-3217 :: Module 1</name>
+  <description>
+    Verify that the dependency of plugin A on some plugin B does not influence the build of another module in the
+    reactor that uses a different version of plugin B for normal build tasks.
+  </description>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-log-file</artifactId>
+        <version>2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <logFile>target/touch-1.txt</logFile>
+        </configuration>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>test-1</id>
+            <phase>validate</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>reset</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+        <dependencies>
+          <!-- In broken Maven versions, this dependency screws up the plugin container used in the other module -->
+          <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3217</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-touch</artifactId>
+            <!-- NOTE: It's essential to use another version than used by the second module to exhibit the bug -->
+            <version>0.1</version>
+          </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/sub-2/pom.xml b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/sub-2/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..df36dec7ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/its/core-it-suite/src/test/resources/mng-3217/sub-2/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you 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">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3217</groupId>
+    <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3217</groupId>
+  <artifactId>test-2</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <name>Maven Integration Test :: MNG-3217 :: Module 2</name>
+  <description>
+    Verify that the dependency of plugin A on some plugin B does not influence the build of another module in the
+    reactor that uses a different version of plugin B for normal build tasks.
+  </description>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.its.mng3217</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-it-plugin-touch</artifactId>
+        <!-- NOTE: It's essential to use another version than used by the first module to exhibit the bug -->
+        <version>0.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <outputFile>target/touch-2.txt</outputFile>
+        </configuration>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>test-2</id>
+            <phase>validate</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>touch</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>