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Johannes Schneider commented on MSITE-619: ------------------------------------------ I just run into that exception. This worked fine some time ago. I think a recent update to the site plugin triggered that bug. Please, please - at least add a better exception message... > Method calculateLink threw exception for reference $PathTool > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: MSITE-619 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSITE-619 > Project: Maven 2.x and 3.x Site Plugin > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Maven 3, site descriptor > Affects Versions: 3.0 > Environment: Maven 3.0.3, MacOS-X 10.6.8 > Reporter: Oliver Boehm > Assignee: Lukas Theussl > > After running 'mvn site:site' I get the following errors after upgrading to > maven-site-plugin 3.0 (with 3.0-beta-3 this error does not happen!): > ... > [ERROR] Method calculateLink threw exception for reference $PathTool in > template org/apache/maven/doxia/siterenderer/resources/default-site.vm at > [2,31] > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] BUILD FAILURE > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Total time: 34.451s > [INFO] Finished at: Sun Nov 20 20:29:56 CET 2011 > [INFO] Final Memory: 22M/81M > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin:3.0:site (default-cli) on project > patterntesting-rt: Error during page generation: Error while generating code. > Invocation of method 'calculateLink' in class > org.codehaus.plexus.util.PathTool threw exception > java.lang.NullPointerException @ > org/apache/maven/doxia/siterenderer/resources/default-site.vm[2,41] -> [Help > 1] > ... > These are the POMs which are used: > - > http://patterntesting.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/patterntesting/PatternTesting10/patterntesting-parent/pom.xml > - > http://patterntesting.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/patterntesting/PatternTesting10/patterntesting-rt/pom.xml -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira