[Contestj-user] Problems building the contestj jar

[Tormod Omholt-J. <to...@bo...>]

I've checked out the contestj project from cvs and I'm about to build the=
 =20
jar. However, I get an error

> :~/EclipseData/contestj> mvn -e maven:jar
+ Error stacktraces are turned on.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'maven'.
[INFO] =20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] =20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---
[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-maven-plugin' does not =
=20
exist or no valid version could be found
[INFO] =20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: The plugin =20
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-maven-plugin' does not exist or no valid =
=20
version could be found
         at =20
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(DefaultL=
ifecycleExecutor.java:1124)
         at =20
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.getMojoDescriptor(Def=
aultLifecycleExecutor.java:1356)
         at =20
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.segmentTaskListByAggr=
egationNeeds(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:376)
         at =20
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecy=
cleExecutor.java:132)
         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:316=
)
         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:113)
         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:249)
         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
         at =20
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java=
:39)
         at =20
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorI=
mpl.java:25)
         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
         at =20
org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
         at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
         at =20
org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
         at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.version.PluginVersionNotFoundException=
: =20
The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-maven-plugin' does not exist o=
r =20
no valid version could be found
         at =20
org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePlugin=
Version(DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:225)
         at =20
org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePlugin=
Version(DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:87)
         at =20
org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin(DefaultPluginMa=
nager.java:158)
         at =20
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(DefaultL=
ifecycleExecutor.java:1095)
         ... 14 more
[INFO] =20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---
[INFO] Total time: 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jan 10 14:21:11 CET 2006
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/2M
[INFO] =20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

As far as I can see there is no reference/dependency in project.xml to an=
y =20
plugin or jar called maven-maven-plugin

Anyone who can give me a hint on this one? I'm running Maven 2.0


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Tormod Omholt-Jensen
Developer
Boost Communications AS
www.boostcom.no