Hmmm.. Googling says this, which has some things to try:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7539970/cannot-construct-org-apache-maven-plugin-war-util-webappstructure-as-it-does-not
I'm not a big Maven user either, I'm afraid.
bryan
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 5:11 PM Rick Hillegas <rick.hille...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am looking for some advice about how to get over the following maven
> problem which I have tripped across while trying to deploy the 10.15.1.3
> artifacts to the Nexus staging repository.
>
> The deployment of derby.war is failing with the error included at the
> end of this message. I am not a maven expert and the advice on the web
> does not help me move this forward. I have tried running the following
> command...
>
> mvn -Dgpg.passphrase="cat gcn gov vtd nth amc" deploy
>
> ...using JDK 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11. I get a different error with JDK 6.
> With the other JDKs, I get the error at the end of this message. My
> naive misunderstanding of what's going on is that, for reasons which are
> hidden in the secret maven handshakes, maven is trying to build a war
> file and failing--even though we don't want maven to build a war file,
> we just want to upload derby.war to the repository.
>
> I hope that someone can help me push through this error. Otherwise, the
> only options I see are:
>
> 1) Delay the publication of 10.15.1.3 until I have learned enough maven
> to be able to fix this. That is an unbounded problem. Since this has to
> happen in my spare time and I am busy, this option could take weeks.
>
> 2) Remove the deployment of derby.war. People who want the war file can
> get it from the Derby distributions. I have never used the war file
> myself, so I wouldn't miss it.
>
> I am leaning toward option 2.
>
> I would appreciate any advice which the community can give me.
>
> Thanks,
> -Rick
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> [INFO] [war:war {execution: default-war}]
> [INFO] Packaging webapp
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] FATAL ERROR
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Cannot construct org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure
> as it does not have a no-args constructor
> ---- Debugging information ----
> message : Cannot construct
> org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure as it does not have a
> no-args constructor
> cause-exception :
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ObjectAccessException
> cause-message : Cannot construct
> org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure as it does not have a
> no-args constructor
> class : org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure
> required-type : org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure
> path : /webapp-structure
> line number : 1
> -------------------------------
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Trace
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException: Cannot
> construct org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure as it does
> not have a no-args constructor
> ---- Debugging information ----
> message : Cannot construct
> org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure as it does not have a
> no-args constructor
> cause-exception :
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ObjectAccessException
> cause-message : Cannot construct
> org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure as it does not have a
> no-args constructor
> class : org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure
> required-type : org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure
> path : /webapp-structure
> line number : 1
> -------------------------------
> at
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:63)
> at
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.java:45)
> at
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:46)
> at
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.start(TreeUnmarshaller.java:117)
> at
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.ReferenceByXPathMarshallingStrategy.unmarshal(ReferenceByXPathMarshallingStrategy.java:29)
> at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:846)
> at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:833)
> at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.fromXML(XStream.java:781)
> at
> org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructureSerializer.fromXml(WebappStructureSerializer.java:73)
> at
> org.apache.maven.plugin.war.AbstractWarMojo.buildWebapp(AbstractWarMojo.java:404)
> at
> org.apache.maven.plugin.war.AbstractWarMojo.buildExplodedWebapp(AbstractWarMojo.java:375)
> at
> org.apache.maven.plugin.war.WarMojo.performPackaging(WarMojo.java:181)
> at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.WarMojo.execute(WarMojo.java:143)
> at
> org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:556)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:535)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348)
> at
> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180)
> at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
> at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
> at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
> at
> org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:60)
> at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
> at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
> at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
> 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)
> Caused by:
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ObjectAccessException:
> Cannot construct org.apache.maven.plugin.war.util.WebappStructure as it
> does not have a no-args constructor
> at
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.PureJavaReflectionProvider.newInstance(PureJavaReflectionProvider.java:59)
> at
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.AbstractReflectionConverter.instantiateNewInstance(AbstractReflectionConverter.java:257)
> at
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.AbstractReflectionConverter.unmarshal(AbstractReflectionConverter.java:124)
> at
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:56)
> ... 31 more
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time: 1 minute 3 seconds
> [INFO] Finished at: Mon Mar 04 16:51:32 PST 2019
> [INFO] Final Memory: 50M/389M
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
