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Ryan Blue commented on PARQUET-722: ----------------------------------- Looks like this was fixed when cascading3 support updated the maven-remote-resources-plugin: [https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr/blob/master/pom.xml#L390-L397] I've confirmed that copying that block into older versions also fixes the problem so I'm going to mark this resolved. > Building with JDK 8 fails over a maven bug > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: PARQUET-722 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-722 > Project: Parquet > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Niels Basjes > Priority: Major > > When I build parquet on my system I get this error during the build: > {quote} > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-remote-resources-plugin:1.5:process (default) > on project parquet-generator: Error rendering velocity resource. > NullPointerException -> [Help 1] > {quote} > About a year ago [~julienledem] responded that this is caused due to a bug in > Maven in combination with Java 8: > At this page > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31229445/build-failure-apache-parquet-mr-source-mvn-install-failure/33360512#33360512 > > Now this bug has been solved at the Maven end in maven-filtering 1.2 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-319 > The problem is that this fix has not yet been integrated into the latest > available maven versions yet. > I'll put up a pull request with a proposed fix for this. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.2#803003)