[MNG-1404] Provide informative messages when POM is invalid

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.1
• Assignee: John Dennis Casey
• Reporter: Barry Kaplan
• Created: 02/Nov/05 17:41
• Updated: 01/Feb/06 14:44
• Resolved: 16/Nov/05 14:30

Description

When a pom is invalid the error message should identify the problem. For example, in the POM below the closing "dependencies" element is misspelled, yet the error messages is only:

[WARNING] POM for: 'springframework:spring:pom:1.2.6' does not appear to
> be valid. Its will be ignored for artifact resolution.
> Reason: Parse error reading POM
> [DEBUG] springframework:spring:jar:1.2.6 (selected for compile)

---

<project>
> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
> <groupId>springframework</groupId>
> <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
> <!-- Really 1.2.6-SNAPSHOT -->
> <version>1.2.6</version>
>
> <dependencies>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
> <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
> <version>1.0.4</version>
> <scope>compile</scope>
> </dependency>
> </depenencies>
>
> </project>