We have encountered a Maven + Eclipse m2e bug when building a fat JAR. Environment and build plug-ins:
- Windows 8.1 64bit (Lajos), Windows 8 64bit (Ágnes), Windows 7 64 bit (Noémi), Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit (Lajos)
- Eclipse 4.3 64 bit
- maven-eclipse-plugin 2.9
- maven-compiler-plugin 3.1 (with Oracle JDK 1.7 both Windows and Linux)
- maven-assembly-plugin 2.4 (configuration: jar-with-dependencies)
The issue is independent from the project dependencies
Reproduction:
- Create project with the following settings and at least on dependency (e.g.: Apache Commons Lang3)
- Execute target "clean install" from Eclipse
Error: Moho Failure
Resolution:
- Quit Eclipse
- Remove the HOME/.m2 directory
- Start Eclipse, let it to refresh the repositories
- maven clean install
- Error again
- Quit Eclipse
- Remove the HOME/.m2 directory
- Start Eclipse, let it to refresh the repositories
- maven clean install
- Now it works and will not break
Please note that the resolution did not work in one of the 10-12 cases. After the "mass encounter" of this problem we avoided to create additional projects.
Ágnes Barta, Lajos Cseppentő, Noémi Szilvásy
