[RAT-29] NPE on "mvn install" in rat-anttasks

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 0.6
• Fix Version/s: 0.6

Environment

$ mvn -v
Maven version: 2.0.8
Java version: 1.6.0_03
OS name: "windows vista" version: "6.0" arch: "x86" Family: "windows"

• Assignee: Jochen Wiedmann
• Reporter: Jukka Zitting
• Created: 23/Jun/08 11:19
• Updated: 25/Feb/09 22:36
• Resolved: 17/Jan/09 22:51

Description

I'm getting a NullPointerException when I run "mvn install" for the rat-anttasks project:

$ mvn install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building RAT Ant Tasks
[INFO] task-segment: [install]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [resources:resources]
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] [compiler:compile]
[INFO] Compiling 2 source files to c:\src\rat\main\trunk\rat\rat-anttasks\target\classes
[INFO] [dependency:copy-dependencies

{execution: default}

]
[INFO] Copying ant-antunit-1.0.jar to c:\src\rat\main\trunk\rat\rat-anttasks\target\dependencies\ant-antunit.jar
[INFO] [resources:testResources]
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] [compiler:testCompile]
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO] [surefire:test]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] null
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.SurefirePlugin.constructSurefireBooter(SurefirePlugin.java:594)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.SurefirePlugin.execute(SurefirePlugin.java:391)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:447)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:480)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:459)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:311)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:278)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:143)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:333)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:126)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:282)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
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)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 11 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Jun 23 14:16:17 EEST 2008
[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/23M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

It looks like an error in the Maven Surefire plugin, but this is the only Maven project I have (and I have quite a few of them) that throws this error.