since you mentioned that this was not the first time, have you tried mvn clean install (or just doing a clean build without running tests, mvn -Pfastinstall clean install) to built it clean?
if that doesn't work, you can post a little more lines before ending up with the last failure log lines. aki 2013/7/30 Al Le <al...@gmx.de>: > Hello. > > I'm having trouble when building CXF. I follow instructions from > http://cxf.apache.org/building.html. > > When I execute "mvn install" (this is not the first time I do this), I get > the following error message and stack trace (see below). > > Can somebody please help me with building CXF since I'd like to do some > modifications to it. But the first step would be to build a clean unmodified > version of it. > > I checked out the source code using the git plugin for eclipse. The version I > have has the label '19581f4d217be2e52b4c611e48f8674aa839ecf9' (a commit by > Sergey Beryozkin, 'Re-enabling a couple of UriBuilderTests', git-svn-id: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cxf/trunk@1508424) > > Thanks for any help! > > > [snip -- many lines of output cut] > > [INFO] Apache CXF System Tests for Maven Plugins ......... SKIPPED > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] BUILD FAILURE > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Total time: 20.218s > [INFO] Finished at: Tue Jul 30 14:59:01 CEST 2013 > [INFO] Final Memory: 72M/175M > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.14:test (default-test) on > project cxf-api: Execution default-test of goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.14:test failed: There was an > error in the forked process > [ERROR] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: AnnotationVisitor > [ERROR] at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) > [ERROR] at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427) > [ERROR] at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1791) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.common.junit4.JUnit4TestChecker.checkforTestAnnotatedMethod(JUnit4TestChecker.java:85) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.common.junit4.JUnit4TestChecker.isValidJUnit4Test(JUnit4TestChecker.java:74) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.common.junit4.JUnit4TestChecker.accept(JUnit4TestChecker.java:51) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.util.DefaultScanResult.applyFilter(DefaultScanResult.java:97) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.scanClassPath(JUnit4Provider.java:206) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:103) > [ERROR] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > [ERROR] at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > [ERROR] at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > [ERROR] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray2(ReflectionUtils.java:208) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:158) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory.invokeProvider(ProviderFactory.java:86) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:153) > [ERROR] at > org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:95) > [ERROR] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: AnnotationVisitor > [ERROR] at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) > [ERROR] at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > [ERROR] at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) > [ERROR] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) > [ERROR] at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) > [ERROR] at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) > [ERROR] ... 18 more
