Re: Maven Shade Plugin - XmlAppendingTransformer cannot be loaded

[thorsten . heit]

Hi Benjamin,

> I'm running into an error when trying to build my project using the 
> shade plugin. I need to merge some XML-Files, so the interesting 
> part of my pom.xml looks like this:

*snip*

>                         <transformer
> 
> 
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.XmlAppendingTrans‌​
> former">
^^^^^^^^^^

> Stacktrace:
> 
> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-shade-
> plugin:1.4:shade (default) on project validator: Unable to parse 
> configuration of mojo org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-shade-plugin:1.
> 4:shade: ClassNotFoundException: Class name which was explicitly 
> given in configuration using 'implementation' attribute: 
> 'org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.XmlAppendingTrans‌​former' 
> cannot be loaded -> [Help 1]

Have a look at the error message: Obviously you have a spelling error in 
your transformer declaration; see above...


HTH

Thorsten