To me, it seems we should at least be able to run the tests first, outside of any continuous build systems.
Here's what I had to do to get them running with Maven2 under jdk1.6.0_02. Maybe this helps ? 1) Get the Commons Parent project using subversion from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/commons-parent/trunk. 2) From the project root, run "mvn install". 3) Then get the Commons Config project from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/commons-parent/trunk Now running "mvn test" results in: Tests run: 1198, Failures: 1, Errors: 19, Skipped: 0 4) In pom.xml replace: <forkMode>never</forkMode> By: <forkMode>pertest</forkMode> AFAIK, this is the same as forking mode in Ant, which in the build.xml of Commons Config is set to true. I guess because some tests influence one another (static variables or something like that). Then after running "mvn test" this results in: Tests run: 1198, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 This failure occurs in org.apache.commons.configuration.TestConfigurationFactory (line 199) because it expects a SAXParseException where it gets only a SAXException. 5) To resolve this, replace: <dependency> <groupId>xerces</groupId> <artifactId>xerces</artifactId> <version>2.2.1</version> By: <dependency> <groupId>xerces</groupId> <artifactId>xerces</artifactId> <version>2.3.0</version> I have no idea why this works. 6) Then there are two warnings: [WARNING] While downloading xerces:xerces:2.3.0 This artifact has been relocated to xerces:xercesImpl:2.3.0. [WARNING] While downloading servletapi:servletapi:2.4 This artifact has been relocated to javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.4. Replace: <dependency> <groupId>xerces</groupId> <artifactId>xerces</artifactId> <version>2.3.0</version> By: <dependency> <groupId>xerces</groupId> <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId> <version>2.3.0</version> And replace: <dependency> <groupId>servletapi</groupId> <artifactId>servletapi</artifactId> <version>2.4</version> By: <dependency> <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId> <version>2.4</version> Or did I overlook something more simple ? (BTW: I did not see any problems with colors) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]