Hi, I'm trying to integrate a checkstyle report in a maven project, but I'm facing a problem. The checkstyle report is based on a custom checkstyle check module I developed. I'm using maven 2.0.9, maven-checkstyle-plugin 2.1, and checkstyle 4.3
When I execute mvn checkstyle:checkstyle or mvn site, I get the following exception. I don't really understand why the TreeWalker can't be instantiated. Any help would be great! [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] An error has occurred in Checkstyle report generation. Embedded error: Failed during checkstyle configuration Unable to instantiate TreeWalkerCheck [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [DEBUG] Trace org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: An error has occurred in Checkstyle report generation. at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:583) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:512) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:482) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:330) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:291) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:142) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:64) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:615) 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) Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: An error has occurred in Checkstyle report generation. at org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.execute(AbstractMavenReport.java:79) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:451) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:558) ... 16 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.reporting.MavenReportException: Failed during checkstyle configuration at org.apache.maven.plugin.checkstyle.CheckstyleReport.executeReport(CheckstyleReport.java:488) at org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.generate(AbstractMavenReport.java:98) at org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.execute(AbstractMavenReport.java:73) ... 18 more Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: cannot initialize module TreeWalker - Unable to instantiate TreeWalker at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:165) at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.AutomaticBean.configure(AutomaticBean.java:209) at org.apache.maven.plugin.checkstyle.CheckstyleReport.executeCheckstyle(CheckstyleReport.java:723) at org.apache.maven.plugin.checkstyle.CheckstyleReport.executeReport(CheckstyleReport.java:484) ... 20 more Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: Unable to instantiate TreeWalker at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.createModule(PackageObjectFactory.java:152) at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Checker.setupChild(Checker.java:140) ... 23 more Caused by: com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.api.CheckstyleException: Unable to instantiate TreeWalkerCheck at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.doMakeObject(PackageObjectFactory.java:94) at com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.PackageObjectFactory.createModule(PackageObjectFactory.java:149) ... 24 more