diff --git a/Formula/jmxtrans.rb b/Formula/jmxtrans.rb
index f6ff9a4bdc..0113b3a9b9 100644
--- a/Formula/jmxtrans.rb
+++ b/Formula/jmxtrans.rb
@@ -1,15 +1,27 @@
-require 'formula'
-
 class Jmxtrans < Formula
-  homepage 'https://github.com/jmxtrans/jmxtrans'
-  url 'https://github.com/downloads/jmxtrans/jmxtrans/jmxtrans-20121016-151320-36564abc7e.zip'
-  version '20121016'
-  sha1 '2b2dc4727de16a30e8b7ac84b9bb4cb7b1ea4a6f'
+  homepage "https://github.com/jmxtrans/jmxtrans"
+  url "https://github.com/jmxtrans/jmxtrans/archive/jmxtrans-249.tar.gz"
+  version "20150330-249"
+  sha256 "770699c04d3cbc36f877551821e15b6daa6dd9decf76b971f70534533854f7f2"
+
+  depends_on :java => "1.6+"
+  depends_on "maven" => :build
 
   def install
-    prefix.install_metafiles
-    libexec.install Dir['*']
-    (libexec/'jmxtrans.sh').chmod 0755
-    bin.install_symlink libexec/'jmxtrans.sh' => "jmxtrans"
+    system "mvn", "package", "-DskipTests=true",
+                             "-Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true",
+                             "-Dcobertura.skip=true"
+
+    libexec.install Dir["*"]
+    inreplace libexec/"jmxtrans.sh", '"jmxtrans-all.jar"',
+                                     "\"#{libexec}/target/jmxtrans-249-all.jar\""
+
+    (libexec/"jmxtrans.sh").chmod 0755
+    bin.install_symlink libexec/"jmxtrans.sh" => "jmxtrans"
+  end
+
+  test do
+    assert_equal "jmxtrans is not running.",
+                 shell_output("#{bin}/jmxtrans status", 3).chomp
   end
 end