xerces:xercesImpl is missing verisons greater than 2.8.0 in metadata --------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MEV-644 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEV-644 Project: Maven Evangelism Issue Type: Bug Components: Invalid Metadata Reporter: Karla Jacobsen The maven-metadata.xml for xerces:xercesImpl is missing versions 2.8.1, 2.9.0, and 2.9.1. As a side note, this was a very difficult issue to decode for a newbie. It would be very helpful to have more documentation, or better error messages to indicate that bad metadata could be the cause of resolve problems. I was seeing the problem when trying to use a range of versions, or when specifying a constrained range (e.g. [2.8.1,) or [2.8.1]). My build succeeded when I just used 2.8.1, so it took me quite a while to figure out why. In case it is helpful...I was running a build using the Ant Maven task 'dependencies' and the following pom.xml: <project> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.mycompany</groupId> <artifactId>example</artifactId> <version>1.1.1</version> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>xerces</groupId> <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId> <version>[2.8.1,2.9.1]</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>xalan</groupId> <artifactId>xalan</artifactId> <version>[2.7.0,2.7.1]</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </project> Here is the relevant Ant output (when running in verbose mode): [artifact:pom] Loading Maven settings file: C:\bin\apache-maven-2.0.9\conf\settings.xml [available] Found: .pom.xml -resolve-compile-dependencies: [artifact:dependencies] Loading Maven settings file: C:\bin\apache-maven-2.0.9\conf\settings.xml [artifact:dependencies] Maven Ant Tasks version: 2.0.10 [artifact:dependencies] Using local repository: C:\Documents and Settings\kjacobse\.m2\repository [artifact:dependencies] Resolving dependencies... [artifact:dependencies] Using remote repositories: - id=enterprise.mvn.repository, url=file:///V:/depot/maven, releases=enabled, snapshots=enabled - id=central, url=http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/MavenProxy/, releases=enabled, snapshots=disabled com.mycompany:example:jar:1.1.1 (selected) [artifact:dependencies] [INFO] artifact xerces:xercesImpl: checking for updates from enterprise.mvn.repository [artifact:dependencies] [INFO] artifact xerces:xercesImpl: checking for updates from central [artifact:dependencies] An error has occurred while processing the Maven artifact tasks. [artifact:dependencies] Diagnosis: [artifact:dependencies] [artifact:dependencies] Unable to resolve artifact: Couldn't find a version in [2.0.0, 2.0.2, 2.2.1, 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 2.5.0, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.1, 2.8.0] to match range [2.8.1,2.9.1] [artifact:dependencies] xerces:xercesImpl:jar:null [artifact:dependencies] [artifact:dependencies] from the specified remote repositories: [artifact:dependencies] enterprise.mvn.repository (file:///V:/depot/maven), [artifact:dependencies] central (http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/MavenProxy/) [artifact:dependencies] [artifact:dependencies] Path to dependency: [artifact:dependencies] 1) com.mycompany:example:jar:1.1.1 [artifact:dependencies] [artifact:dependencies] [artifact:dependencies] BUILD FAILED C:\eclipse\eclipse-workspaces\eclipse-jee-galileo\galileo\build\super-build.xml:406: Unable to resolve artifact: Couldn't find a version in [2.0.0, 2.0.2, 2.2.1, 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 2.5.0, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.1, 2.8.0] to match range [2.8.1,2.9.1] xerces:xercesImpl:jar:null from the specified remote repositories: enterprise.mvn.repository (file:///V:/depot/maven), central (http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/MavenProxy/) Path to dependency: 1) com.mycompany:example:jar:1.1.1 at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.DependenciesTask.doExecute(DependenciesTask.java:175) at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.AbstractArtifactTask.execute(AbstractArtifactTask.java:678) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.EclipseDefaultExecutor.executeTargets(EclipseDefaultExecutor.java:32) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.run(InternalAntRunner.java:423) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.main(InternalAntRunner.java:137) Caused by: org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.OverConstrainedVersionException: Couldn't find a version in [2.0.0, 2.0.2, 2.2.1, 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 2.5.0, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.1, 2.8.0] to match range [2.8.1,2.9.1] xerces:xercesImpl:jar:null from the specified remote repositories: enterprise.mvn.repository (file:///V:/depot/maven), central (http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/MavenProxy/) Path to dependency: 1) com.mycompany:example:jar:1.1.1 at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactCollector.recurse(DefaultArtifactCollector.java:375) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactCollector.collect(DefaultArtifactCollector.java:74) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:300) at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.DependenciesTask.doExecute(DependenciesTask.java:170) ... 16 more --- Nested Exception --- org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.OverConstrainedVersionException: Couldn't find a version in [2.0.0, 2.0.2, 2.2.1, 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 2.5.0, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.7.1, 2.8.0] to match range [2.8.1,2.9.1] xerces:xercesImpl:jar:null from the specified remote repositories: enterprise.mvn.repository (file:///V:/depot/maven), central (http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/MavenProxy/) Path to dependency: 1) com.mycompany:example:jar:1.1.1 at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactCollector.recurse(DefaultArtifactCollector.java:375) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactCollector.collect(DefaultArtifactCollector.java:74) at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveTransitively(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:300) at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.DependenciesTask.doExecute(DependenciesTask.java:170) at org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.AbstractArtifactTask.execute(AbstractArtifactTask.java:678) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.EclipseDefaultExecutor.executeTargets(EclipseDefaultExecutor.java:32) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.run(InternalAntRunner.java:423) at org.eclipse.ant.internal.ui.antsupport.InternalAntRunner.main(InternalAntRunner.java:137) -- 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