{
// Have to serialize to a file as if Maven is embedded, there may not actually be a settings.xml on disk
try
{
settingsFile = File.createTempFile( "release-settings", ".xml" );
SettingsXpp3Writer writer = new SettingsXpp3Writer();
FileWriter fileWriter = null;
try
{
fileWriter = new FileWriter( settingsFile );
writer.write( fileWriter, releaseEnvironment.getSettings() );
}
finally
{
IOUtil.close( fileWriter );
}