I've been trying to build my own plugin using an Ant mojo, and when I attempt to load it up into maven, I'm getting a null pointer exception.
How does one go about debugging this to determine where I've made a mistake in the plugin? This is all being driven in a move to convert a pre-ant build mechanism up to Maven. Should I consider just bagging the plugin and pushing this into the POM with an Ant task? [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- [INFO] Building tea [INFO] task-segment: [clean, package] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- [INFO] artifact WDIG:wdig-beandoc-plugin: checking for updates from central [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] null [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.addPlugin(DefaultPluginMana ger.java:292) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyVersionedPlugin(Defau ltPluginManager.java:198) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin(DefaultPluginM anager.java:163) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(Default LifecycleExecutor.java:1252) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.bindPluginToLifecycl e(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1216) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.constructLifecycleMa ppings(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java: 982) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultL ifecycleExecutor.java:453) 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) [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 2 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Thu Jun 29 08:40:54 PDT 2006 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]