I just cloned, and ran a build (mvn install) in 'caliper', and then tried the same thing in 'examples'. There's an error that I think is just a simple mismatch of version (missing a '-beta').
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[INFO] Building Caliper Examples 1.0-beta-SNAPSHOT
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[WARNING] The POM for com.google.caliper:caliper:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT is missing, no dependency information available
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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[INFO] Total time: 0.357s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Nov 13 19:32:23 EST 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 4M/16M
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[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project caliper-examples: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.google.caliper:caliper-examples:jar:1.0-beta-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find com.google.caliper:caliper:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT in
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