diff --git a/ivy/ProjectResolver.scala b/ivy/ProjectResolver.scala
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+package sbt
+
+	import java.io.File
+	import java.util.Date
+
+	import org.apache.ivy.{core,plugins}
+	import core.{cache,module, report, resolve,search}
+	import cache.{ArtifactOrigin,RepositoryCacheManager}
+	import search.{ModuleEntry, OrganisationEntry, RevisionEntry}
+	import module.id.ModuleRevisionId
+	import module.descriptor.{Artifact => IArtifact, DefaultArtifact, DependencyDescriptor, ModuleDescriptor}
+	import plugins.namespace.Namespace
+	import plugins.resolver.{DependencyResolver,ResolverSettings}
+	import report.{ArtifactDownloadReport, DownloadReport, DownloadStatus, MetadataArtifactDownloadReport}
+	import resolve.{DownloadOptions, ResolveData, ResolvedModuleRevision}
+
+/**A Resolver that uses a predefined mapping from module ids to in-memory descriptors.
+* It does not handle artifacts.*/
+class ProjectResolver(name: String, map: Map[ModuleRevisionId, ModuleDescriptor]) extends ResolverAdapter
+{
+	def getName = name
+	def setName(name: String) = error("Setting name not supported by ProjectResolver")
+
+	def getDependency(dd: DependencyDescriptor, data: ResolveData): ResolvedModuleRevision =
+	{
+		val revisionId = dd.getDependencyRevisionId
+		def constructResult(descriptor: ModuleDescriptor) = new ResolvedModuleRevision(this, this, descriptor, report(revisionId), true)
+		val dep = (map get revisionId map constructResult).orNull
+		dep
+	}
+
+	def report(revisionId: ModuleRevisionId): MetadataArtifactDownloadReport =
+	{
+		val artifact = DefaultArtifact.newIvyArtifact(revisionId, new Date)
+		val r = new MetadataArtifactDownloadReport(artifact)
+		r.setSearched(false)
+		r.setDownloadStatus(DownloadStatus.NO)
+		r
+	}
+
+	def findIvyFileRef(dd: DependencyDescriptor, data: ResolveData) = null
+
+	// this resolver nevers locates artifacts, only resolves dependencies
+	def exists(artifact: IArtifact) = false
+	def locate(artifact: IArtifact) = null
+
+	def notDownloaded(artifact: IArtifact): ArtifactDownloadReport=
+	{
+		val r = new ArtifactDownloadReport(artifact)
+		r.setDownloadStatus(DownloadStatus.NO)
+		r
+	}
+	def download(artifacts: Array[IArtifact], options: DownloadOptions): DownloadReport =
+	{
+		val r = new DownloadReport
+		for(artifact <- artifacts)
+			r addArtifactReport notDownloaded(artifact)
+		r
+	}
+    def download(artifact: ArtifactOrigin, options: DownloadOptions): ArtifactDownloadReport  =
+		notDownloaded(artifact.getArtifact)
+
+	// doesn't support publishing
+	def publish(artifact: IArtifact, src: File, overwrite: Boolean) = error("Publish not supported by ProjectResolver")
+	def beginPublishTransaction(module: ModuleRevisionId, overwrite: Boolean) {}
+    def abortPublishTransaction() {}
+    def commitPublishTransaction() {}
+
+	def reportFailure()  {}
+	def reportFailure(art: IArtifact)  {}
+
+	def listOrganisations() = new Array[OrganisationEntry](0)
+	def listModules(org: OrganisationEntry) = new Array[ModuleEntry](0)
+	def listRevisions(module: ModuleEntry) = new Array[RevisionEntry](0)
+
+    def getNamespace = Namespace.SYSTEM_NAMESPACE
+
+	private[this] var settings: Option[ResolverSettings] = None
+
+	def dumpSettings() {}
+	def setSettings(settings: ResolverSettings) { this.settings = Some(settings) }
+	def getRepositoryCacheManager = settings match { case Some(s) => s.getDefaultRepositoryCacheManager; case None => error("No settings defined for ProjectResolver") }
+}
diff --git a/ivy/ResolverAdapter.java b/ivy/ResolverAdapter.java
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+package sbt;
+
+	import java.util.Map;
+	import org.apache.ivy.plugins.resolver.DependencyResolver;
+
+// implements the methods with raw types
+public abstract class ResolverAdapter implements DependencyResolver
+{
+    public String[] listTokenValues(String token, Map otherTokenValues) { return new String[0]; }
+
+    public Map[] listTokenValues(String[] tokens, Map criteria) { return new Map[0]; }
+}
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