Hi I am new to Maven so this question might seem quite a non-problem :)

anyways I have set the  PATH to M2_HOME  and installed maven correctly since
executing the command M2 --version returns the correct version.
I have a project.xml with relative tagged info but when I try to execute
commands such as m2 compile of m2 java:compile an error is generated that
includes something of this sort:

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Diagnosis: Error configuring plugin for execution of 'resources:resources'
[INFO]
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[ERROR] Cause:
org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Error configuring plugin for
execution of 'resources:resources'.
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(
DefaultPluginManager.java:335)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(
DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:479)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle
(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:452)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(
DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:438)
        at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(
DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:273)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(
DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:131)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:186)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:302)
        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:585)
        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.PluginConfigurationException: Unable to
parse the created DOM for plugin configuration
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.populatePluginFields
(DefaultPluginManager.java:1019)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(
DefaultPluginManager.java:515)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(
DefaultPluginManager.java:330)
        ... 15 more
Caused by:
org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.ComponentConfigurationException:
Class 'java.util.List' cannot be instantiated
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.converters.AbstractConfigurationConverter.instantiateObject
(AbstractConfigurationCo
rter.java:121)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.converters.composite.CollectionConverter.fromConfiguration
(CollectionConverter.java
)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.converters.ComponentValueSetter.configure
(ComponentValueSetter.java:252)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.converters.composite.ObjectWithFieldsConverter.processConfiguration
(ObjectWithField
nverter.java:116)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.BasicComponentConfigurator.configureComponent
(BasicComponentConfigurator.java:55)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.populatePluginFields
(DefaultPluginManager.java:1014)
        ... 17 more
Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: java.util.List
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:335)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:303)
        at
org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.converters.AbstractConfigurationConverter.instantiateObject
(AbstractConfigurationCo
rter.java:111)
        ... 22 more
[INFO]
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[INFO] Total time: 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Nov 29 22:24:50 CET 2005
[INFO] Final Memory: 2M/5M
[INFO]
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can someone help me out?
Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks in advance

Charlie

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