@andrewgaul This differs from the Checkstyle plugin, which seemingly can find these kind of relative paths.
Log snippet from running `mvn checkstyle:checkstyle -X -pl project` from the jclouds root: ``` [DEBUG] request.getConfigLocation() ../resources/checkstyle.xml [DEBUG] The resource '../resources/checkstyle.xml' was not found with resourceLo ader org.codehaus.plexus.resource.loader.JarResourceLoader. [DEBUG] The resource '../resources/checkstyle.xml' was not found with resourceLo ader org.codehaus.plexus.resource.loader.ThreadContextClasspathResourceLoader. [DEBUG] URLResourceLoader: Exception when looking for '../resources/checkstyle.x ml' at '' ... [DEBUG] The resource '../resources/checkstyle.xml' was not found with resourceLo ader org.codehaus.plexus.resource.loader.URLResourceLoader. [DEBUG] The resource '../resources/checkstyle.xml' was found as C:\Users\aphilli ps\Workspaces\Personal\jclouds\jclouds\project\..\resources\checkstyle.xml. ``` I'll try to have a look at this later... --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/548#issuecomment-57950660
