I Googled that stack trace for you and it pointed me straight to the POI FAQ here: http://poi.apache.org/faq.html#faq-N10006 . Classpath debugging advice there - you might need to check if you have an overlapping dependency, so dependency:analyze and dependency:tree are probably good starts.
Best Brett On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:24 AM, aminm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dave Newton wrote: > > > > Geoffrey Wiseman wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Dave Newton <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> Does 4.5 not work? > >> I was just responding to Amin's comment about JUnit 4.4 [...] > > > > Ah, missed that--never mind :) > > > > Dave > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > Hi > > Thanks for the replies! I managed to get the surefire plugin to use junit > 4. However I am getting some strange behaviour, in that some of my tests > fail, while they all run fine in eclipse. I am using text mining as a > dependency and exclude the version of poi that comes with it. The > exception that I get is > > > testCanCreateLuceneDocumentForMSWordDocument(com.amin.app.lucene.index.handler.ms.MSWordHandlerTest) > Time elapsed: 0.038 sec <<< ERROR! > java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: > > org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem.getRoot()Lorg/apache/poi/poifs/filesystem/DirectoryNode; > at org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument.<init>(HWPFDocument.java:158) > at > org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor.WordExtractor.<init>(WordExtractor.java:59) > at > > com.amin.app.lucene.index.handler.ms.MSWordHandler.extractText(MSWordHandler.java:16) > > > I know that this exception occurs if I am using an old version of poi > (2.5), > even though I have excluded the version that comes with text mining. I > have > added > > <dependency> > <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId> > <artifactId>poi</artifactId> > <version>3.5-beta4</version> > <scope>compile</scope> > </dependency> > > This is very strange and I can't understand why the tests won't run. > > Any help again would be appreciated. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Maven-2.0.9-NullpointerException-when-running-tests-tp2209372p2220012.html > Sent from the maven users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
