Further investigation has yielded more interesting results. :-) In turns out that the maven deploy plugin exception can be made to occur or not occur simply by the presence of a <profile> in my ~/.m2/settings.xml.
Note that the profile does not even need to be active to trigger the "missing deploymentRepository" exception, so this seems like a bug rather than a mis-configuration of my environment. <settings> <profiles> <profile> <id>corporate</id> <repositories> <repository> <id>corporate-central</id> <name>Corporate Maven</name> <url>http://...</url> <layout>legacy</layout> </repository> </repositories> </profile> </profiles> </settings> After further debugging, it turns out that the contents of the <profile> actually has no impact, its mere presence triggers the bug. So... <profiles> <profile/> </profiles> ...inside <settings> also triggers the exception during m2 deploy. Kind Regards, John Fallows. On 8/11/05, John Fallows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a problem with deployment on the m2 trunk, r231365? > > My project has "pom" packaging, with a <distributionManagement> > section that contains <repository>, <snapshotRepository> and <site>, > yet the maven-deploy-plugin deploy:deploy goal still fails with a null > deploymentRepository parameter. > > See below for pom.xml and stack trace. > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > Kind Regards, > John Fallows. > > <project> > <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> > > <groupId>...</groupId> > <artifactId>...</artifactId> > <version>...</version> > <packaging>pom</packaging> > > <repositories> > <repository> > <id>corporate-central</id> > <url>http://...</url> > <layout>legacy</layout> > </repository> > > <repository> > <id>corporate-snapshots</id> > <url>http://...</url> > <layout>legacy</layout> > </repository> > > <repository> > <id>central</id> > <url>http://...</url> > </repository> > </repositories> > > <pluginRepositories> > <pluginRepository> > <id>corporate-plugins</id> > <url>http://...</url> > </pluginRepository> > > <pluginRepository> > <id>central-plugins</id> > <url>http://...</url> > </pluginRepository> > </pluginRepositories> > > <distributionManagement> > <repository> > <id>corporate-central</id> > <url>scp://...</url> > <layout>legacy</layout> > </repository> > > <snapshotRepository> > <id>corporate-snapshots</id> > <url>scp://...</url> > </snapshotRepository> > > <site> > <id>bali-site</id> > <url>http://...</url> > </site> > </distributionManagement> > </project> > > > > [INFO] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ERROR] BUILD ERROR > [INFO] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [INFO] Diagnosis: Error configuring plugin for execution of 'deploy:deploy'. > [INFO] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ERROR] Cause: > org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Error configuring > plugin for execution of 'deploy:deploy'. > at > org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:342) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:472) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:445) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:431) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:268) > at > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:127) > at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:186) > at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:292) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) > 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: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginParameterException: Invalid > or missing parameters: [Mojo parameter [name: 'deploymentRepository'; > alias: 'null']] for mojo: > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.0-alpha-3:deploy > at > org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.checkRequiredParameters(DefaultPluginManager.java:782) > at > org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:521) > at > org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:337) > ... 15 more > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]