private String resolveSnapshotRevision(String version) {
  InputStream input = null;
  try {
    LOGGER.finest("Resolving SNAPSHOT version if any...");
    URL url = new URL(getArtifactUrlForPath(version+"/maven-metadata.xml"));

    LOGGER.finest("Requesting metadata from URL: "+url.toExternalForm());

    URLConnection conn = prepareConnection(url);

    input = conn.getInputStream();

    Thread currentThread = Thread.currentThread();
    ClassLoader originalContext = currentThread.getContextClassLoader();
    try {
      currentThread.setContextClassLoader(MavenMetadataParameterDefinition.class.getClassLoader());
      JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(MavenMetadataVersions.class);
      Unmarshaller unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller();
      MavenMetadataVersions metadata = (MavenMetadataVersions) unmarshaller.unmarshal(input);

      if (metadata.versioning.snapshot != null && !StringUtils.isEmpty(metadata.versioning.snapshot.timestamp)) {
        return version.replaceAll("SNAPSHOT", "") +  metadata.versioning.snapshot.timestamp + "-" + metadata.versioning.snapshot.buildNumber;
      }
    } finally {
      currentThread.setContextClassLoader(originalContext);
    }

  } catch (Exception e) {
    LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Could not parse maven-metadata.xml", e);
  } finally {
    try {
      if (input != null)
        input.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      // ignore
    }
  }
  // we did not find anything, return the original value
  LOGGER.finest("No match found, using default");
  return version;
}