Here's the patch to fix it...

I applied the changes and am assuming it works, but I couldn't reproduce the issue (as I use Linux).

It seems to partially work. I have the following in by build.properties:

maven.home.local=${maven.home}
maven.repo.local=${maven.home}/repository

MAVEN_HOME=c:\maven-1.0.1

The check is too powerful in this case. It compares the absolute path:

c:\maven-1.0.1\repository\mycompany\jars\myjar.jar

with the canonical:

C:\maven-1.0.1\repository\mycompany\jars\myjar.jar

Driver letter case changes between both. The workaround is to modify the MAVEN_HOME to have a capital C.

If I understood the fix correctly, I think the goal is to check only the jar name or maybe the jar and the group, not the complete path. That would solve the issue.

And I think you will hate working on the issue if you use Linux

Looks like the problem is serious, as this bug was fixed for the 1.6 release which got into maven 1.0.2

I tried to add a link to MAVEN-1526 (which was caused by the fix for this bug), but Jira failed to do so:

An error occurred: com.atlassian.core.AtlassianCoreException: Error in action: com.atlassian.jira.action.link.LinkCreate@1f795a9, result: null: [GenericEntity.set] "linktype" is not a field of IssueLink

Henri,

I changed the code to only issue a warning. Could you please install the latest maven-ear-plugin from CVS (or download it from my page at apache, running the command maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://apache.org/~felipeal/maven_repo -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-ear-plugin -Dversion=1.7-SNAPSHOT) and see it works now?

Thanks again,

Felipe

PS: if it works, could you please post the warning messages here?

I'm marking as fixed, but will cut the release only this Saturday - so users will have more time testing it

I will be releasing maven-ear-plugin 1.6.1 over the weekend. Meanwhile, I provided a 'pre-release' to be tested by those having these issues.

You can install it using the following command:

maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://apache.org/~felipeal/maven_repo -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-ear-plugin -Dversion=1.6.1-SNAPSHOT

So, for those having issues with the ear plugin bundled with Maven 1.0.2, please try this new version and let us know the result.

Thanks (and sorry for the hassle

– Felipe

I'm undoing the fix, as it introduced more issues than it solved.