diff --git a/sandbox/maven-repository-checker/pom.xml b/sandbox/maven-repository-checker/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+
+<project>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+    <artifactId>maven</artifactId>
+    <version>2.0-beta-1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+  <artifactId>maven-repository-checker</artifactId>
+  <name>Maven Repository Checker</name>
+  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-model</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0-beta-1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>plexus</groupId>
+      <artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
+      <version>1.0.1</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/sandbox/maven-repository-checker/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/repository/checker/CheckRepo.java b/sandbox/maven-repository-checker/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/repository/checker/CheckRepo.java
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+package org.apache.maven.repository.checker;
+
+/*
+ * Copyright 2004-2005 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.model.io.xpp3.MavenXpp3Reader;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+
+public class CheckRepo
+{
+    public static void main( String[] args )
+    {
+        if ( args.length != 1 )
+        {
+            System.out.println( "Usage: " + CheckRepo.class.getName() + " <repository path>" );
+            System.exit( 1 );
+        }
+
+        File rootDir = new File( args[0] );
+        if ( !rootDir.exists() )
+        {
+            System.out.println( rootDir.getAbsolutePath() + " doesn't exist." );
+
+            System.exit( 1 );
+        }
+
+        String[] extensions = { "pom" };
+
+        String[] files = FileUtils.getFilesFromExtension( rootDir.getAbsolutePath(), extensions );
+
+        for ( int i = 0; i < files.length; i++ )
+        {
+            //System.out.println( files[i] );
+            parseFile( new File( files[i] ) );
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static void parseFile( File file )
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            FileReader fileReader = new FileReader( file );
+
+            MavenXpp3Reader reader = new MavenXpp3Reader();
+
+            reader.read( fileReader );
+        }
+        catch ( Exception e )
+        {
+            System.out.println( "================================================" );
+
+            System.out.println( file.getAbsolutePath() );
+
+            e.printStackTrace();
+
+            System.out.println( "================================================" );
+        }
+    }
+}