Error when trying to use org.codehaus.mojo:cobertura-maven-plugin:2.6

Question

I'm trying to use the Cobertura maven plugin for code coverage. But I am getting an error when running the following command:

mvn clean package cobertura:cobertura -Dcobertura.report.format=xml

Here is how I have the plugin defined in my pom.xml:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
  <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.6</version>
  <configuration>
    <formats>
      <format>xml</format>
    </formats>
    <instrumentation>
      <excludes>
        <include>**/*.class</include>
        <exclude>**/*Test.class</exclude>
        <exclude>**/Test*.class</exclude>
      </excludes>
    </instrumentation>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

And here is the error I am receiving:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1:09.201s
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Aug 21 17:28:24 GMT+00:00 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 25M/64M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:cobertura-maven-plugin:2.6:instrument (default-cli) on project project-beta: Execution default-cli of goal org.codehaus.mojo:cobertura-maven-plugin:2.6:instrument failed: A required class was missing while executing org.codehaus.mojo:cobertura-maven-plugin:2.6:instrument: net/sourceforge/cobertura/util/CommandLineBuilder
[ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] realm =    plugin>org.codehaus.mojo:cobertura-maven-plugin:2.6
[ERROR] strategy = org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy
[ERROR] urls[0] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/mojo/cobertura-maven-plugin/2.6/cobertura-maven-plugin-2.6.jar
[ERROR] urls[1] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/net/sourceforge/cobertura/cobertura/2.0.3/cobertura-2.0.3.jar
[ERROR] urls[2] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/ow2/asm/asm/4.1/asm-4.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[3] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/ow2/asm/asm-tree/4.1/asm-tree-4.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[4] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/ow2/asm/asm-commons/4.1/asm-commons-4.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[5] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/ow2/asm/asm-util/4.1/asm-util-4.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[6] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/ow2/asm/asm-analysis/4.1/asm-analysis-4.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[7] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/oro/oro/2.0.8/oro-2.0.8.jar
[ERROR] urls[8] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/jaxen/jaxen/1.1-beta-8/jaxen-1.1-beta-8.jar
[ERROR] urls[9] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/dom4j/dom4j/1.6.1/dom4j-1.6.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[10] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/jdom/jdom/1.0/jdom-1.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[11] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/xerces/xmlParserAPIs/2.6.2/xmlParserAPIs-2.6.2.jar
[ERROR] urls[12] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/xerces/xercesImpl/2.6.2/xercesImpl-2.6.2.jar
[ERROR] urls[13] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/xom/xom/1.0b3/xom-1.0b3.jar
[ERROR] urls[14] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/com/ibm/icu/icu4j/2.6.1/icu4j-2.6.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[15] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/xalan/xalan/2.6.0/xalan-2.6.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[16] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/ccil/cowan/tagsoup/tagsoup/0.9.7/tagsoup-0.9.7.jar
[ERROR] urls[17] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/ant/ant/1.8.3/ant-1.8.3.jar
[ERROR] urls[18] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/ant/ant-launcher/1.8.3/ant-launcher-1.8.3.jar
[ERROR] urls[19] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/mortbay/jetty/servlet-api-2.5/6.1.14/servlet-api-2.5-6.1.14.jar
[ERROR] urls[20] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/mortbay/jetty/jetty/6.1.14/jetty-6.1.14.jar
[ERROR] urls[21] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/mortbay/jetty/jetty-util/6.1.14/jetty-util-6.1.14.jar
[ERROR] urls[22] = file:/data/java/jdk1.7.0_45/jre/../lib/tools.jar
[ERROR] urls[23] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/log4j/log4j/1.2.9/log4j-1.2.9.jar
[ERROR] urls[24] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/net/sourceforge/cobertura/cobertura-runtime/2.0.3/cobertura-runtime-2.0.3.pom
[ERROR] urls[25] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/urbanophile/java-getopt/1.0.9/java-getopt-1.0.9.jar
[ERROR] urls[26] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/commons-cli/commons-cli/1.0/commons-cli-1.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[27] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-interactivity-api/1.0-alpha-4/plexus-interactivity-api-1.0-alpha-4.jar
[ERROR] urls[28] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/reporting/maven-reporting-api/2.0.8/maven-reporting-api-2.0.8.jar
[ERROR] urls[29] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-sink-api/1.0-alpha-9/doxia-sink-api-1.0-alpha-9.jar
[ERROR] urls[30] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/reporting/maven-reporting-impl/2.0.4.2/maven-reporting-impl-2.0.4.2.jar
[ERROR] urls[31] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/commons-validator/commons-validator/1.2.0/commons-validator-1.2.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[32] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/commons-beanutils/commons-beanutils/1.7.0/commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[33] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/commons-digester/commons-digester/1.6/commons-digester-1.6.jar
[ERROR] urls[34] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.0.4/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
[ERROR] urls[35] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/xml-apis/xml-apis/1.0.b2/xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar
[ERROR] urls[36] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-core/1.0/doxia-core-1.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[37] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-site-renderer/1.0/doxia-site-renderer-1.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[38] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-i18n/1.0-beta-7/plexus-i18n-1.0-beta-7.jar
[ERROR] urls[39] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-velocity/1.1.7/plexus-velocity-1.1.7.jar
[ERROR] urls[40] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/velocity/velocity/1.5/velocity-1.5.jar
[ERROR] urls[41] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-decoration-model/1.0/doxia-decoration-model-1.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[42] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/commons-collections/commons-collections/3.2/commons-collections-3.2.jar
[ERROR] urls[43] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-module-apt/1.0/doxia-module-apt-1.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[44] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-module-fml/1.0/doxia-module-fml-1.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[45] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-module-xdoc/1.0/doxia-module-xdoc-1.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[46] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-module-xhtml/1.0/doxia-module-xhtml-1.0.jar
[ERROR] urls[47] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/commons-lang/commons-lang/2.4/commons-lang-2.4.jar
[ERROR] urls[48] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/2.0.2/plexus-utils-2.0.2.jar
[ERROR] urls[49] = file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/shared/maven-invoker/2.0.11/maven-invoker-2.0.11.jar
[ERROR] Number of foreign imports: 1
[ERROR] import: Entry[import  from realm ClassRealm[maven.api, parent: null]]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------: net.sourceforge.cobertura.util.CommandLineBuilder
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginContainerException
Build step 'Invoke top-level Maven targets' marked build as failure
Skipping Cobertura coverage report as build was not UNSTABLE or better ...
Finished: FAILURE  

I have already cleared my local repository and tried running it again, but no luck.

Any other suggestions?

I am using Maven 3.1.0 and Java 1.7.0_45

UPDATE: I am using Nexus as a repo manager. Looking in the logs I see:

[INFO] Failed to parse Maven artifact /data/home/user/sonatype-work/nexus/storage/central/net/sourceforge/cobertura/cobertura/2.0.3/cobertura-2.0.3.jar due to invalid CEN header (bad signature)

This seems to suggest that this jar is corrupt. But I keep trying to redownload it from Maven Central. Still stuck.

Answer 1

I was also facing this issue and the issue was with Java version in Maven. It may happen you have multiple JDK version in system or your Maven referring to some other JDK version.

So first you can check the maven and referring version by typing below command in your maven project directory.

mvn -v

ITSs-MacBook-Pro:workbench vshah$ mvn -v Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f) Maven home: /usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.6.3_1/libexec Java version: 1.8.0_241, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_241.jdk/Contents/Home/jre Default locale: en_GB, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.14.3", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"

And check the maven and JDK version. If you found maven's JDK version not referring to required JDK version then you need to check your JAVA_HOME path. If you set JAVA_HOME path correctly it will work for sure.

Answer 2

Use this:-

<plugin>
   <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
   <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>2.7</version>
   <configuration>
       <formats>
           <format>html</format>
           <format>xml</format>
       </formats>
       <reportSets>
           <reportSet>
               <reports>
                   <report>cobertura</report>
               </reports>
           </reportSet>
       </reportSets>
   </configuration>     
</plugin>

Answer 3

Please check your path variable. You might be pointing it to jre bin path, it should point to jdk bin. I had the same issue, i did the above solution it worked for me.

Answer 4

尝试从外部站点下载并将其放置在您的本地存储库中。

Answer 5

If you guys are using jenkins and facing issue while executing Descriptive jobs then check the configuration as well,

if you have selected Auto install option for maven and Java in "Global Tool configuration" then unclick it and add the directory manually where your maven and java is installed on jenkins server.

Answer 6

Most important line is A required class was missing while executing org.codehaus.mojo:cobertura-maven-plugin:2.6:instrument: net/sourceforge/cobertura/util/CommandLineBuilder . Verify if the jar containing this class (ie file:/data/home/user/.m2/repository/net/sourceforge/cobertura/cobertura/2.0.3/cobertura-2.0.3.jar) is corrupted. Is so, remove it from your local repository. If you're using a Repository Manager as well, verify it that one is corrupt as well and needs to be removed. Next give it another try.