I was able to get it working with Netbeans 6.9.1, so it must have been an issue with Netbeans 6.8. Thanks for the mvn commands, I'm sure they'll come in handy in the future!
--Adam On 06/28/2011 03:19 PM, Andreas Lehmkuehler wrote: > Hi, > > Am 28.06.2011 22:27, schrieb a...@swmc.com: >> Is anyone else having compiling errors with 1.6.0 or HEAD? I did a clean >> checkout of 1.6.0[1] and I told Netbeans to download all the libraries, >> which resolved most of the errors, but the following still persists: >> [ERROR]Transitive dependency resolution for scope: test has failed for >> your project. >> [ERROR]Error message: Missing: >> [ERROR]---------- >> [ERROR]1) org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox:jar:1.6.0 >> [ERROR] Try downloading the file manually from the project website. >> [ERROR] Then, install it using the command: >> [ERROR] mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.apache.pdfbox >> -DartifactId=pdfbox -Dversion=1.6.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file >> [ERROR] Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy >> the >> file there: >> [ERROR] mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=org.apache.pdfbox >> -DartifactId=pdfbox -Dversion=1.6.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file >> -Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id] >> [ERROR] Path to dependency: >> [ERROR] 1) org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox-ant:jar:1.6.0 >> [ERROR] 2) org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox:jar:1.6.0 >> [ERROR]---------- >> [ERROR]1 required artifact is missing. >> [ERROR]for artifact: >> [ERROR] org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox-ant:jar:1.6.0 >> [ERROR]from the specified remote repositories: >> [ERROR] apache.snapshots (http://repository.apache.org/snapshots), >> [ERROR] central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) >> [ERROR]Group-Id: org.apache.pdfbox >> [ERROR]Artifact-Id: pdfbox-ant >> [ERROR]Version: 1.6.0 >> [ERROR]From file: C:\Users\adam.nichols\Documents\pdfbox1.6.0\ant\pom.xml >> >> I also tried doing this on Linux and got the same error. This could be >> something I'm doing wrong, but it shouldn't be anything more involved >> than >> `svn co<1.6.0 branch URL>` and downloading the libs. After that it >> should be ready to compile and run. I want to get this resolved so I can >> check the 1.6.0 release and give it a thumbs up. >> >> When I checked out HEAD it says that the pdfbox module is a "Badly formed >> Maven project." When I get the details, it says "The Parent POM with >> coordinates org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox-parent:1.7.0-SNAPSHOT was not found >> in local sources (via parent/relativePath xml element) or in the >> following >> remote repositories: central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)" >> >> I tried checking out some older revisions of HEAD (1140777, 1140775, >> 1140768, and 1140753) to see if that would resolve my issue, but it keeps >> complaining about the 1.7.0-SNAPSHOT. >> >> Probably the most troubling thing is that I can check out tag 1.5.0, >> download the libs, and everything works fine. So I think it may be an >> issue with the tag/HEAD and not something I'm doing wrong. >> >> [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pdfbox/tags/1.6.0/ > I'm neither a Netbeans nor a maven expert, but I guess it must have > something to do with netbeans. I checked out the 1.6.0 tag and the head > version and both build fine using "mvn test". Probably netbeans tries to > download 1.6.0/1.7.0 artifacts which are not in the maven repository. > Try a "mvn install" to create an install the artifacts to your local repo. > > HTH > Andreas Lehmkühler
