ah, yes. Maybe ErrorDiagnoser. Here is what I get, but would prefer a BUILD FAILURE:
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Cause:
org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Error configuring plugin for execution of 'jar:jar'.
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:430)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.processGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:169)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:90)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.processProject(DefaultMaven.java:253)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:167)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:246)
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:585)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:303)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:243)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:416)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:363)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginConfigurationException: Unable to parse the created DOM for plugin configuratio
n
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.populatePluginFields(DefaultPluginManager.java:553)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:400)
... 13 more
Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.ComponentConfigurationException: Class 'org.apache.maven.plugin.ja
r.JarMojo' does not contain a field named 'addClasspath'
at org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.converters.composite.ObjectWithFieldsConverter.getFieldByName(Obje
ctWithFieldsConverter.java:176)
at org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.converters.composite.ObjectWithFieldsConverter.processConfiguratio
n(ObjectWithFieldsConverter.java:112)
at org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.BasicComponentConfigurator.configureComponent(BasicComponentConfig
urator.java:54)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.populatePluginFields(DefaultPluginManager.java:548)
... 14 more
Added some formatting to the exception error message puked from the plexus container, and also in the project builder, where Xpp3 and IO exceptions are encountered...