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Re: Badly formed Maven project

by Milos Kleint-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Wouter van Reeven
<wouter@...> wrote:

> Hi Milos,
>
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:01:46PM +0100, Milos Kleint wrote:
>> Well, it generally means that the project failed loading. The loading
>> is done with the 3.0-SNAPSHOT embedder, so mvn eclipse:eclipse is
>> probably fine because a different version of maven was used.
>> sometimes there's problems with poor multithreading of maven embedder.
>> sometimes there's a bug in the embedder code.
>> And of course sometimes there's a wrong pom.
>> from outside of the embedder it's hard to tell what is wrong. The
>> exception that gets thrown is often (unless a clear Xml parsing error)
>> not clear.
>>
>> I think I've done some improvements in this area for 6.5, definitely
>> should be failing less often but still can happen. But definitely
>> something of of my reach to fix altogether :(
>
> I am using maven 2.0.9 under Debian. When I try to execute the "package" goal I
> get these errors:
>
> [ERROR]Failed to load external profiles from project directory:
> [ERROR]/home/wouter/dev/vp/workspace/vpa
> [ERROR]Error message:
> [ERROR]Unrecognised tag: 'settings' (position: START_TAG seen <?xml version="1.0"?>\n<settings>... @2:11)
> [ERROR]Line:
> [ERROR]Column:
> [ERROR]Project Id: nl.amis.vp:vpa:war:1.0-SNAPSHOT
> [ERROR]From file: /home/wouter/dev/vp/workspace/vpa/pom.xml
> [ERROR]Some tips:
> [ERROR] - XSD location: http://maven.apache.org/xsd/profiles-1.0.0.xsd
>
> It looks like MevenIDE doesn't like my profiles.xml file. It looks like this
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <settings>
>    <activeProfiles>
>        <activeProfile>glassfish</activeProfile>
>        <activeProfile>oracle</activeProfile>
>    </activeProfiles>
> </settings>
>
> Any idea how I may improve it?

the root element is wrong.
it should be <profilesXml>, not <settings>

Milos

>
>
> Thanks, Wouter
>
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