diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d73c73ce..6904ea42 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,21 @@
 				</snapshotRepository>
 			</distributionManagement>
 		</profile>
+		<profile>
+			<id>central</id>
+			<distributionManagement>
+			  <snapshotRepository>
+				<id>sonatype-nexus-snapshots</id>
+				<name>Sonatype Nexus Snapshots</name>
+				<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
+			  </snapshotRepository>
+			  <repository>
+				<id>sonatype-nexus-staging</id>
+				<name>Nexus Release Repository</name>
+				<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</url>
+			  </repository>
+			</distributionManagement>
+		</profile>
 	</profiles>
 	<scm>
 		<url>http://github.com/SpringSource/spring-amqp</url>