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Nick Bower commented on SUREFIRE-117: ------------------------------------- I've also encountered the need to load resources from the classpath in unit tests so gave the latest plugin (2.3) and the <useSystemClassLoader> configuration a try but ran into this error; [INFO] Surefire report directory: c:\Documents and Settings\nick\workspace\DataF eeds\target\surefire-reports [INFO] Building jar: c:\DOCUME~1\nick\LOCALS~1\Temp\surefirebooter59155.jar java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/maven/surefire/booter/SurefireBooter Exception in thread "main" [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE I'm using XP. > ability to add dependency to jvm's classpath rather in surefirebooter > classloader > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SUREFIRE-117 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-117 > Project: Maven Surefire > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 2.0 (2.2 plugin) > Environment: xp > Reporter: Dan Tran > Assignee: Kenney Westerhof > Fix For: 2.4 > > Attachments: MSUREFIRE-121-booter.patch, MSUREFIRE-121.plugin.patch, > MSUREFIRE-121.plugin.patch2, MSUREFIRE-121.plugin.patch3 > > > I have a usecase where i have a jar file got loaded by -Xbootclasspath, that > jar file then loads classes from another jar ( my dependency) > expected in the classpath. > The problem is that surefire plugin does not add my dependencies at JVM > commanline thru -classpath option, but after the JVM starts -- 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