Thanks Brian, that did the trick. I was previously looking at an older version of the dependency plugin that did not have the exclusions in the pom, so I was confused for a while.
Once again, the help is greatly appreciated. On 8/8/07, Brian E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to exclude the container-api jars. Take a look at the > exclusions in the maven-dependency-plugin pom, along with the enforcer > use to alert me if it creeps in via another dependency. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Mellors [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 1:47 PM > To: users@maven.apache.org > Subject: Container not set in plexus DefaultArchiverManager > > I am trying to write an installer plugin which makes use of the > ArchiverManager to unpack artifacts. However when it tries to > determine which Unarchiver to use, the plugin fails with a > NullPointerException because the plexus container has not been > initialised. > > I have attempted to use the maven-dependency-plugin as a model, but > cannot identify what I need to do or configure to get this to happen. > Any clues would be very welcome. > > Thankyou in anticipation. > > David Mellors ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]