diff --git a/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/java-basic-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/coreit/MPlugin220Mojo.java b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/java-basic-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/coreit/MPlugin220Mojo.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..84a49da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/java-basic-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/coreit/MPlugin220Mojo.java
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package org.apache.maven.plugin.coreit;
+
+/*
+ * 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.plugin.AbstractMojo;
+import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
+import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Mojo;
+import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Parameter;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * Could not use regex in @Parameter(defaultValue) 
+ */
+@Mojo( name = "mplugin-220" )
+public class MPlugin220Mojo
+    extends AbstractMojo
+{
+    
+    @Parameter( defaultValue = "[a-zA-Z]{2,}-\\\\d+" )
+    private String regex;
+
+    public void execute()
+        throws MojoExecutionException
+    {
+        getLog().info( "regex = " + regex );
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 33a9750..a9c7cca 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,19 @@
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/plugin-tools/</url>
   <inceptionYear>2004</inceptionYear>
 
+  <repositories>
+    <repository>
+      <id>Codehaus Snapshots (for QDox-1.12.1-SNAPSHOT)</id>
+      <url>http://nexus.codehaus.org/snapshots/</url>
+      <snapshots>
+        <enabled>true</enabled>
+      </snapshots>
+      <releases>
+        <enabled>false</enabled>
+      </releases>
+    </repository>
+  </repositories>
+
   <mailingLists>
     <mailingList>
       <name>Maven User List</name>
@@ -283,7 +296,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.thoughtworks.qdox</groupId>
         <artifactId>qdox</artifactId>
-        <version>1.12</version>
+        <version>1.12.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
 
       <dependency>