Can anyone help me figure out what this means? I'm using maven 2.0.4 (but I tried maven-2.1-SNAPSHOT with the same results). I'm doing a reactor build and although my build works perfectly fine when I go to each submodule and invoke "mvn install", if I try to do this from the top level pom directory, I get this error: I'm posting here because I've had no luck on the users@maven.apache.org list. Thanks. -- eric
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar': Unable t o find the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-pl ugin' [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [DEBUG] Trace org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal 'org.apache. maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar': Unable to find the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin' at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(Default LifecycleExecutor.java:538) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifec ycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:47 5) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultL ifecycleExecutor.java:454) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandle Failures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.jav a:306) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:273) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifec ycleExecutor.java:140) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:322) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:115) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:256) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginManagerException: Unable to find the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-p lugin:2.1:jar' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin' at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultPl uginManager.java:533) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginMa nager.java:390) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(Default LifecycleExecutor.java:534) ... 16 more Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.exception.ComponentLookupExcept ion: Unable to lookup component 'org. apache.maven.plugin.Mojoorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:ja r', it could not be started at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer .java:339) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer .java:440) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultPl uginManager.java:524) ... 18 more Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.exception.ComponentLifecycleExc eption: Error starting component at org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.startComp onentLifecycle(AbstractComponentManag er.java:109) at org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.createCom ponentInstance(AbstractComponentManag er.java:95) at org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.PerLookupComponentManager.getCompo nent(PerLookupComponentManager.java:4 8) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer .java:331) ... 20 more Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.personality.plexus.lifecycle.phase.PhaseExecutionExc eption: Error composing component at org.codehaus.plexus.personality.plexus.lifecycle.phase.CompositionPhase. execute(CompositionPhase.java:33) at org.codehaus.plexus.lifecycle.AbstractLifecycleHandler.start(AbstractLif ecycleHandler.java:101) at org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.startComp onentLifecycle(AbstractComponentManag er.java:105) ... 23 more Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.component.composition.CompositionException: Composition failed for the field jarArchiver in object of type org.apache.maven.plugin.jar.JarMojo at org.codehaus.plexus.component.composition.FieldComponentComposer.assignR equirementToField(FieldComponentCompo ser.java:144) at org.codehaus.plexus.component.composition.FieldComponentComposer.assembl eComponent(FieldComponentComposer.jav a:73) at org.codehaus.plexus.component.composition.DefaultComponentComposerManage r.assembleComponent(DefaultComponentC omposerManager.java:68) at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.composeComponent(DefaultPlexu sContainer.java:1486) at org.codehaus.plexus.personality.plexus.lifecycle.phase.CompositionPhase. execute(CompositionPhase.java:29) ... 25 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException at sun.reflect.UnsafeObjectFieldAccessorImpl.set(UnsafeObjectFieldAccessorI mpl.java:63) at java.lang.reflect.Field.set(Field.java:519) at org.codehaus.plexus.component.composition.FieldComponentComposer.assignR equirementToField(FieldComponentCompo ser.java:137) ... 29 more [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 8 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Wed Nov 01 23:08:36 PST 2006 [INFO] Final Memory: 10M/18M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------