Maven 1.x Castor Plugin

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: None
• Labels:

  None
• Environment:

  Windows or Linux, J2SDK 1.5.0-beta1, 1.4.1 or 1.4.2 or 1.4.2_03, Maven 1.0-rc2

I have some schema files I generate Java classes from using Castor. A snippet from my maven.xml looks like:

<attainGoal name="castor:prepare-filesystem"/>
<castor:generate
schema="${maven.src.dir}/xsd/adapter.script.xsd"
package="com.piplusplus.messaging.configuration"/>

When I use JDK 1.3.1 it generates the source correctly. When using any of the newer Java versions I instead get the following obscure error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: sun/reflect/ConstructorAccessorImpl

I tried adding the "-X" and "-verbose:class" options to track the problem further and also tried debugging against with the Castor source in my path. I think I began to make some progress, but subsequently gave up. From memory it was having problems unmarshalling the "simple types" (or similar) properties file.

After much lost time I found that the problem was avoided by causing the invokation of the source generator to be done in a forked process.

This can be achieved by pretending to have a Castor properties file by adding the line "maven.castor.properties.dir=." to the "project.properties" file, which is the workaround I'm currently using.

I've also added a patch to always fork, rather than only when a Castor properties file is available.

If "someone" could take a look at what I've done and commit if appropriate I'd be appreciative. If not, then at least if I save someone's time I'd be happy too. I like Maven, but it can be difficult to debug certain problems that occur.

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   patch.txt

   23/Apr/04 7:41 PM

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   David Thexton

• Assignee:

  Unassigned

  Reporter:

  David Thexton

• Created:

  23/Apr/04 7:38 PM

  Updated:

  23/Apr/04 7:41 PM