When there are special characters in the <localrepository> path and running the command mvn clean.causes the exception
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java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.addPlugin(DefaultPluginM
anager.java:295)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyVersionedPlugin(De
faultPluginManager.java:200)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin(DefaultPlug
inManager.java:165)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(Defa
ultLifecycleExecutor.java:1218)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.getMojoDescriptor
(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1430)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.segmentTaskListBy
AggregationNeeds(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:378)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLi
fecycleExecutor.java:134)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:322)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:115)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:249)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
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)
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Attached is the settiings.xml.
This is a side effect of
MNG-3607. Class loaders fail to load stuff from broken URLs like file:/C:/Documents and Settings/#rvarana/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.3/maven-clean-plugin-2.3.jar. So while the artifacts themselves end up in the proper location, Maven isn't able to read any classes/resources from them.