MalformedURLException on windows when useSystemClassLoader set to true ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: SUREFIRE-322 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-322 Project: Maven Surefire Issue Type: Bug Components: plugin Affects Versions: 2.3 Environment: Windows XP (and probably all win32 OS) Reporter: Mark Palmer useSystemClassLoader does not work on windows XP, due to the way that the surefire plugin creates a manifest.mf which includes all necessary jars to run the projects tests. The manifest.mf file created in surefirebooter[1-9]*.jar contains absolute paths that begin with the drive letter, e.g. c:\somedir\somejar.jar on on unix this would be /somedir/somejar.jar which java.net.URL can cope with, on windows c:/somedir/somejar.jar needs to be changed to file:///c:\somedir\somejar.jar steps to recreate are simple: 1. mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app 2. add the following entry in pom.xml for my-app <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <useSystemClassLoader>true</useSystemClassLoader> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> 3. mvn install which will fail with [INFO] Building jar: c:\DOCUME~1\username\LOCALS~1\Temp\surefirebooter43635.jar java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: c at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:573) at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:463) at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.parseClassPath(URLClassPath.java:923) at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getClassPath(URLClassPath.java:896) at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getLoader(URLClassPath.java:351) at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:205) at java.net.URLClassLoader$ClassFinder.run(URLClassLoader.java:846) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged1(Native Method) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:389) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:371) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:570) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:442) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:502) The java class is not found: org/apache/maven/surefire/booter/SurefireBooter -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira