So, I tried my google-fu first - and in general my google-fu is very very strong...
I've been fighting with this multi-module plan for some time now with the developer who is reporting the issue to me. The issue manifested itself as part of a Sonar failure... the funny thing is, that the failure was on a dependenct tree resolution that Sonar was doing - so I had him try the dependency plugin and perform a dependency:tree dependency tree failed us... well, it probably isn't dependency plugin's fault but I am at a loss as to what it is really dying on or why. I would absolutely love it if someone saw this and said "Oh yeah, I know that issue. Its a real pain. They have XXX defined incorrectly in their multimodule build so the dependency plugin is in a circular dependency loop" (or something like that). I have no idea if its a dependency loop, was just an example. I can't share the poms because its all proprietary closed source stuff (and I have to be careful about what is shared). If this means that I dont have enough info to help, I can live with that - and will continue to plow forwards... I just wanted to see if theres someone on the list who knows exactly what I should be looking for to help shorten my investigation time. Here's an example of what dependency:tree is complaining about. mvn dependency:tree -Dverbose=true -DoutputFile=dependencies.txt -e -X urls[38] = file:/C:/Users/thisguysuserid/.m2/repository/commons-collections/commons-collections/3.2.1/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar Number of foreign imports: 1 import: Entry[import from realm ClassRealm[maven.api, parent: null]] ----------------------------------------------------- at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:139) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209) ... 19 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginContainerException: An API incompatibility was encountered while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:tree: java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.apache.maven.shared.dependency.tree.DependencyTreeResolutionListener.manageArtifactSystemPath(Lorg/apache/maven/artifact/Artifact;Lorg/apache/maven/artifact/Artifact;)V --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org