Hello, we had the problem before that aninal sniffer does fail, when it is invoked from a Java 8 maven VM.
However I am not quite sure what the outcome was. I think it was an old ASM dependency which has been dragged into the maven classpath by some other plugin, but I am not sure. VFS uses animal-sniffer-maven-plugin:1.13:check with java16 signatures as defined in commons-parent:38. Anybody remebers how to solve this? (it passes when I use JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_1_7_HOME% -Pjava-1.8 so it does not depend on the compile-vm) 34400 [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin:1.13:check (checkAPIcompatibility) on project commons-vfs2: Execution checkAPIcompatibility of goal org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin:1.13:check failed. IllegalArgumentException -> [Help 1] org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin:1.13:check (checkAPIcompatibility) on project commons-vfs2: Execution checkAPIcompatibility of goal org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin:1.13:check failed. at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:224) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:116) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:80) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:120) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:355) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:155) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:584) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:216) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:160) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356) Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginExecutionException: Execution checkAPIcompatibility of goal org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-maven-plugin:1.13:check failed. at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:143) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208) ... 19 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.codehaus.mojo.animal_sniffer.ClassListBuilder.process(ClassListBuilder.java:71) at org.codehaus.mojo.animal_sniffer.ClassFileVisitor.processJarFile(ClassFileVisitor.java:157) at org.codehaus.mojo.animal_sniffer.ClassFileVisitor.process(ClassFileVisitor.java:107) at org.codehaus.mojo.animal_sniffer.maven.CheckSignatureMojo.apply(CheckSignatureMojo.java:361) at org.codehaus.mojo.animal_sniffer.maven.CheckSignatureMojo.buildPackageList(CheckSignatureMojo.java:308) at org.codehaus.mojo.animal_sniffer.maven.CheckSignatureMojo.execute(CheckSignatureMojo.java:211) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:132) ... 20 more --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org