Tip for running Maven2 using Apache Harmony

Just set JAVA_HOME as usual and run “mvn clean install”. But there’s a gotcha. You may see the following issue when surefire tries to run the tests.


[INFO] [resources:testResources]
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] [compiler:testCompile]
[INFO] Compiling 58 source files to /home/dims/XmlSchema/target/test-classes
[INFO] [surefire:test]
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /home/dims/XmlSchema/target/surefire-reports
Uncaught exception in main:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.SurefireBooter
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:894)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:593)
at java.lang.ClassLoader$SystemClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:981)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:319)
at org.apache.harmony.vm.JarRunner.main(JarRunner.java:72)
[INFO] ————————————————————————
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ————————————————————————


If you do, then just set your MAVEN_OPTS as follows and run “mvn clean install” again.


set MAVEN_OPTS=-Dsurefire.useSystemClassLoader=false


More information about this switch can be found at:
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Classloading+and+Forking+under+Maven+Surefire