error: group(class java.lang.NullPointerException)
An NPE, eh? I see that the code seems to have changed relative to the current trunk - do you think you could build against 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT and run the example again to see if anything's changed?
I've pasted a version of the compute-basics POM with the required changes (basically, changing jclouds.version, changing the google-compute-engine group ID and adding the Apache snapshot repo) here:
http://pastie.org/private/zlfanz26pzc0hydsc2zwq Thanks for sending over that additional info! Regards ap
