diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/ProjectGenerator.kt b/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/ProjectGenerator.kt
index 6b25c8d1..2637d2cf 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/ProjectGenerator.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/ProjectGenerator.kt
@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ import java.util.HashMap
  * Generate a new project.
  */
 public class ProjectGenerator : KobaltLogger {
+    companion object {
+        /**
+         * Turns a dot property into a proper Kotlin identifier, e.g. common.version -> commonVersion
+         */
+        fun translate(key: String): String {
+            return key.split('.').mapIndexed( { index, value -> if (index == 0) value else value.upperFirst() }).join("")
+        }
+    }
+
     fun run(args: Args) {
         if (File(args.buildFile).exists()) {
             log(1, "Build file ${args.buildFile} already exists, not overwriting it")
@@ -52,7 +61,7 @@ public class ProjectGenerator : KobaltLogger {
         map.put("mainDependencies", mainDeps)
         map.put("testDependencies", testDeps)
         File("pom.xml").let {
-            if (it.exists()) {
+            if (it.absoluteFile.exists()) {
                 importPom(it, mainDeps, testDeps, map)
             }
         }
@@ -68,12 +77,13 @@ public class ProjectGenerator : KobaltLogger {
 
     private fun importPom(pomFile: File, mainDeps: ArrayList<Dependency>, testDeps: ArrayList<Dependency>,
             map: HashMap<String, Any?>) {
-        var pom = Pom("imported", pomFile)
+        var pom = Pom("imported", pomFile.absoluteFile)
         with(map) {
             put("group", pom.groupId ?: "com.example")
             put("artifactId", pom.artifactId ?: "com.example")
             put("version", pom.version ?: "0.1")
             put("name", pom.name ?: pom.artifactId)
+            put("repositories", pom.repositories.map({ "\"${it}\"" }).join(","))
         }
 
         val properties = pom.properties
@@ -101,18 +111,6 @@ public class ProjectGenerator : KobaltLogger {
             dep
         }
 
-    /**
-     * Turns a dot property into a proper Kotlin identifier, e.g. common.version -> commonVersion
-     */
-    private fun translate(key: String) =
-        key.split('.').mapIndexed( { index, value -> if (index == 0) value else value.upperFirst() }).join("")
-
-    private fun String.upperFirst() =
-        if (this.isBlank()) {
-            this
-        } else {
-            this.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + this.substring(1)
-        }
 
     /**
      * Detect all the languages contained in this project.
@@ -129,3 +127,7 @@ public class ProjectGenerator : KobaltLogger {
         return result.map { it.first }
     }
 }
+
+private fun String.upperFirst(): String {
+    return if (this.isBlank()) this else this.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + this.substring(1)
+}
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/api/Kobalt.kt b/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/api/Kobalt.kt
index cb49e913..9b138b2e 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/api/Kobalt.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/api/Kobalt.kt
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public class Kobalt {
 
         val repos = ArrayList<String>(DEFAULT_REPOS)
 
-        fun addRepo(repo: String) = repos.add(repo)
+        fun addRepo(repo: String) = repos.add(if (repo.endsWith("/")) repo else repo + "/")
 
         private val PROPERTY_KOBALT_VERSION = "kobalt.version"
         private val KOBALT_PROPERTIES = "kobalt.properties"
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/maven/Pom.kt b/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/maven/Pom.kt
index 0bfea321..5643e50f 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/maven/Pom.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/maven/Pom.kt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants
 import kotlin.dom.childElements
 
 public class Pom @javax.inject.Inject constructor(@Assisted val id: String,
-        @Assisted documentFile: java.io.File) : KobaltLogger {
+                                                  @Assisted documentFile: java.io.File) : KobaltLogger {
     val XPATH_FACTORY = javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory.newInstance()
     val XPATH = XPATH_FACTORY.newXPath()
     var groupId: String? = null
@@ -19,21 +19,22 @@ public class Pom @javax.inject.Inject constructor(@Assisted val id: String,
     var version: String? = null
     var name: String? = null
     var properties = sortedMapOf<String, String>()
+    var repositories = listOf<String>()
 
     public interface IFactory {
-        fun create(@Assisted id: String, @Assisted documentFile : java.io.File) : Pom
+        fun create(@Assisted id: String, @Assisted documentFile: java.io.File): Pom
     }
 
     data public class Dependency(val groupId: String, val artifactId: String, val version: String,
-            val optional: Boolean = false, val scope: String? = null) : KobaltLogger {
+                                 val optional: Boolean = false, val scope: String? = null) : KobaltLogger {
 
         /** When a variable is used in a maven file, e.g. ${version} */
         private val VAR = "$" + "{"
 
         val mustDownload: Boolean
-            get() = ! optional && "provided" != scope && "test" != scope
+            get() = !optional && "provided" != scope && "test" != scope
 
-        val isValid : Boolean
+        val isValid: Boolean
             get() {
                 var result = false
                 if (version.contains(VAR)) {
@@ -62,10 +63,14 @@ public class Pom @javax.inject.Inject constructor(@Assisted val id: String,
         artifactId = XPATH.compile("/project/artifactId").evaluate(document)
         version = XPATH.compile("/project/version").evaluate(document)
         name = XPATH.compile("/project/name").evaluate(document)
+        var repositoriesList = XPATH.compile("/project/repositories").evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODESET) as NodeList
+        var repoElem = repositoriesList.item(0) as Element?
+        repositories = repoElem.childElements()
+              .map({ it.getElementsByTagName("url").item(0).textContent })
 
-        var list = XPATH.compile("/project/properties").evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODESET) as NodeList
-        var elem = list.item(0) as Element?
-        elem.childElements().forEach {
+        val propertiesList = XPATH.compile("/project/properties").evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODESET) as NodeList
+        var propsElem = propertiesList.item(0) as Element?
+        propsElem.childElements().forEach {
             properties.put(it.nodeName, it.textContent)
         }
 
diff --git a/src/main/resources/build-template.mustache b/src/main/resources/build-template.mustache
index 663f032c..adde7a4e 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/build-template.mustache
+++ b/src/main/resources/build-template.mustache
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import com.beust.kobalt.*
 import com.beust.kobalt.plugin.packaging.assemble
 {{imports}}
 
+val repos = repos({{{repositories}}})
+
 {{#properties}}
 val {{first}} = "{{second}}"
 {{/properties}}
diff --git a/src/test/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/maven/PomTest.kt b/src/test/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/maven/PomTest.kt
index 376cd79a..b840bd99 100644
--- a/src/test/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/maven/PomTest.kt
+++ b/src/test/kotlin/com/beust/kobalt/maven/PomTest.kt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 package com.beust.kobalt.maven
 
+import com.beust.kobalt.Args
+import com.beust.kobalt.ProjectGenerator
 import org.testng.Assert
 import org.testng.annotations.Test
 import java.io.File
@@ -7,7 +9,8 @@ import java.io.File
 class PomTest {
     @Test
     fun importPom() {
-        val pom = Pom("testing", File("src/test/resources/pom.xml"));
+        val pomSrc = File("src/test/resources/pom.xml")
+        val pom = Pom("testing", pomSrc);
 
         Assert.assertEquals(pom.groupId, "com.foo.bob")
         Assert.assertEquals(pom.artifactId, "rawr")
@@ -15,5 +18,54 @@ class PomTest {
         Assert.assertEquals(pom.version, "1.2.3")
         Assert.assertEquals(pom.properties.get("commons.version"), "2.1.1")
         Assert.assertEquals(pom.properties.get("guice.version"), "4.0")
+
+        validateGeneratedFile(pom, pomSrc)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun importBasicPom() {
+            val pomSrc = File("src/test/resources/pom-norepositories-properties.xml")
+            val pom = Pom("testing", pomSrc);
+
+            Assert.assertEquals(pom.groupId, "com.foo.bob")
+            Assert.assertEquals(pom.artifactId, "rawr")
+            Assert.assertEquals(pom.name, "rawr")
+            Assert.assertEquals(pom.version, "1.2.3")
+            Assert.assertTrue(pom.properties.isEmpty())
+            Assert.assertTrue(pom.repositories.isEmpty())
+
+        validateGeneratedFile(pom, pomSrc)
+    }
+
+    private fun validateGeneratedFile(pom: Pom, pomSrc: File) {
+        val temp = File(System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"))
+        val original = System.getProperty("user.dir")
+        System.setProperty("user.dir", temp.absolutePath)
+        val pomFile = File(temp, "pom.xml")
+        pomFile.deleteOnExit()
+        pomSrc.copyTo(pomFile, true)
+        try {
+            val file = File(temp, "Build.kt")
+            file.delete()
+
+            file.deleteOnExit()
+            val args = Args()
+            args.buildFile = file.absolutePath
+            args.init = true
+            ProjectGenerator().run(args)
+            var contents = file.readText()
+            Assert.assertTrue(contents.contains("group = \"${pom.groupId}\""), "Should find the group defined")
+            Assert.assertTrue(contents.contains("name = \"${pom.name}\""), "Should find the name defined")
+            Assert.assertTrue(contents.contains("version = \"${pom.version}\""), "Should find the version defined")
+            pom.properties.forEach {
+                Assert.assertTrue(contents.contains("val ${ProjectGenerator.translate(it.key)} = \"${it.value}\""), "Should find the " +
+                      "property defined")
+            }
+            pom.repositories.forEach {
+                Assert.assertTrue(contents.contains(it), "Should find the repository defined")
+            }
+        } finally {
+            System.getProperty("user.dir", original)
+        }
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources/pom-norepositories-properties.xml b/src/test/resources/pom-norepositories-properties.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c467fa10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/pom-norepositories-properties.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<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>com.foo.bob</groupId>
+    <artifactId>rawr</artifactId>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <version>1.2.3</version>
+
+    <name>rawr</name>
+</project>