Maven compile error ProjectBuildingException - maven

Question

I'm trying to compile with maven a specific snapshot of Apache log4j.
I obtain this error:
[INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
[WARNING] 'build.plugins.plugin.version' for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin is missing. # line 89, column 15
[ERROR] 'build.plugins.plugin[org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin].dependencies.dependency.scope' for junit:junit:jar must be one of [compile, runtime, system] but is 'test'. # line 321, column 20
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:416)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:663)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjectsForMavenReactor(DefaultMaven.java:654)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:243)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:154)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:582)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:214)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:158)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
[ERROR]
[ERROR] The project log4j:log4j:1.2.17-SNAPSHOT (/scratch/test/log4j/code/pom.xml) has 1 error
[ERROR] 'build.plugins.plugin[org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin].dependencies.dependency.scope' for junit:junit:jar must be one of [compile, runtime, system] but is 'test'. # line 321, column 20
[ERROR]
[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/ProjectBuildingException
This is the POM file:
<!--
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<!--
Usage notes:
To build NTEventLogAppender.dll using MinGW, place mingw\bin on path for Windows or install mingw
package on other platforms. Build will execute gcc and windres on Windows and
i586-mingw32msvc-gcc and i586-mingw32msvc-windres on other platforms.
To build NTEventLogAppender.dll using Microsoft tools, run the appropriate vcvars for the
target platform and specify -Dntdll_target=msbuild on the mvn command line.
-->
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<packaging>bundle</packaging>
<name>Apache Log4j</name>
<version>1.2.17-SNAPSHOT</version>
<description>Apache Log4j 1.2</description>
<url>http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/</url>
<issueManagement>
<system>Bugzilla</system>
<url>http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/</url>
</issueManagement>
<ciManagement>
<system>Gump</system>
<url>http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/logging-log4j-12/logging-log4j-12/index.html</url>
</ciManagement>
<inceptionYear>1999</inceptionYear>
<mailingLists>
<mailingList>
<name>log4j-user</name>
<subscribe>log4j-user-subscribe#logging.apache.org</subscribe>
<unsubscribe>log4j-user-unsubscribe#logging.apache.org</unsubscribe>
<post>log4j-user#logging.apache.org</post>
<archive>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/logging-log4j-user/</archive>
<otherArchives>
<otherArchive>http://marc.info/?l=log4j-user</otherArchive>
<otherArchive>http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.log4j.user</otherArchive>
</otherArchives>
</mailingList>
<mailingList>
<name>log4j-dev</name>
<subscribe>log4j-dev-subscribe#logging.apache.org</subscribe>
<unsubscribe>log4j-dev-unsubscribe#logging.apache.org</unsubscribe>
<post>log4j-dev#logging.apache.org</post>
<archive>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/logging-log4j-dev/</archive>
<otherArchives>
<otherArchive>http://marc.info/?l=log4j-dev</otherArchive>
<otherArchive>http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.log4j.devel</otherArchive>
</otherArchives>
</mailingList>
</mailingLists>
<licenses>
<license>
<name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
<url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
<distribution>repo</distribution>
</license>
</licenses>
<scm>
<connection>scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/log4j/trunk</connection>
<developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/logging/log4j/trunk</developerConnection>
<url>http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4j/trunk</url>
</scm>
<organization>
<name>Apache Software Foundation</name>
<url>http://www.apache.org</url>
</organization>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<configuration>
<workingDirectory>tests</workingDirectory>
<reportFormat>plain</reportFormat>
<forkMode>pertest</forkMode>
<skip>true</skip>
<includes>
<include>org/apache/log4j/LevelTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/PriorityTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/CategoryTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/FileAppenderTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/LogManagerTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/helpers.LogLogTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/LayoutTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/helpers.DateLayoutTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/TTCCLayoutTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/xml.XMLLayoutTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/HTMLLayoutTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/PatternLayoutTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/spi.LoggingEventTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/spi.ThrowableInformationTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/spi.LocationInfoTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/PropertyConfiguratorTest.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/MinimumTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/LoggerTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/PatternLayoutTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/HierarchyThresholdTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/xml/DOMTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/xml/CustomLevelTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/customLogger/XLoggerTestCase.java</include>
<!-- DefaultInit -->
<!-- SocketServer -->
<include>org/apache/log4j/xml/XMLLayoutTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/xml/AsyncAppenderTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/varia/LevelMatchFilterTestCase.java</include>
<!-- ErrorHandlerTestCase is not run in Ant build either
<include>org/apache/log4j/varia/ErrorHandlerTestCase.java</include>
-->
<!-- include>org/apache/log4j/helpers/OptionConverterTestCase.java</include -->
<include>org/apache/log4j/helpers/BoundedFIFOTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/helpers/CyclicBufferTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/helpers/PatternParserTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/or/ORTestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/DRFATestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/RFATestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/varia/ERFATestCase.java</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/net/SyslogAppenderTest</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/nt/NTEventLogAppenderTest</include>
<include>org/apache/log4j/net/SocketAppenderTest</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.3</source>
<target>1.1</target>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifestSections>
<manifestSection>
<name>org.apache.log4j</name>
<manifestEntries>
<DynamicImport-Package>*</DynamicImport-Package>
<Implementation-Title>log4j</Implementation-Title>
<Implementation-Version>${project.version}</Implementation-Version>
<Implementation-Vendor>"Apache Software Foundation"</Implementation-Vendor>
</manifestEntries>
</manifestSection>
</manifestSections>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<executions>
<!-- generate NTEventLogAppender.dll -->
<execution>
<phase>process-classes</phase>
<id>ntdll</id>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<ant antfile="src/ntdll/build.xml" target="${ntdll_target}">
<property name="target.dir" location="target" />
<property name="classes.dir" location="target/classes" />
<property name="src.dir" location="src/ntdll" />
<property name="jni.include.dir" location="${java.home}/../include" />
</ant>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<!-- create tests/output prior to test run -->
<execution>
<phase>test-compile</phase>
<id>mkdir_tests_output</id>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<mkdir dir="tests/output" />
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<phase>clean</phase>
<id>rmdir_tests_output</id>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<delete dir="tests/output" />
<delete dir="tests/classes" />
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<id>runAll</id>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<ant dir="tests" target="runAll">
<property name="m2_repo" location="${m2_repo}" />
<property name="log4j.jar" location="target/classes" />
<property name="project.lib.home" location="target" />
</ant>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<!-- release builds will put SVN tags into the SCM page, this changes it back to trunk -->
<execution>
<phase>site</phase>
<id>untag-site</id>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<taskdef name="replaceregexp" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ReplaceRegExp" />
<replaceregexp file="target/site/source-repository.html" match="/tags/[^ "'<]*" replace="/trunk" flags="g" />
<replaceregexp match="-- Generated by (.*) on .*--" replace="-- Generated by \1 --" flags="g">
<fileset dir="target/site/apidocs" includes="**/*.html" />
</replaceregexp>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<phase>post-site</phase>
<id>post-site</id>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<ant target="post-site" />
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<phase>site-deploy</phase>
<id>site-deploy</id>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<ant target="site-deploy" />
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>javadoc.resources</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<copy todir="${project.build.directory}/apidocs/META-INF">
<fileset dir="${basedir}">
<include name="LICENSE" />
<include name="NOTICE" />
</fileset>
</copy>
</tasks>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>ant</groupId>
<artifactId>ant-nodeps</artifactId>
<version>1.6.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ant-contrib</groupId>
<artifactId>ant-contrib</artifactId>
<version>1.0b2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ant</groupId>
<artifactId>ant-junit</artifactId>
<version>1.6.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>sun.jdk</groupId>
<artifactId>tools</artifactId>
<version>1.4.2</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${tools.jar}</systemPath>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-5</version>
<configuration>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>src/assembly/bin.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
<appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>assembly</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<configuration>
<docfilessubdirs>true</docfilessubdirs>
<excludedocfilessubdir>.svn</excludedocfilessubdir>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
<docEncoding>UTF-8</docEncoding>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
<goal>javadoc</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>site</id>
<phase>pre-site</phase>
<goals>
<goal>javadoc</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0-beta-9</version>
<!--
Bug MRELEASE-273 has been throwing NPE during release:perform,
typically after deploy so this places it last.
-->
<configuration>
<goals>package site-deploy assembly:attached deploy</goals>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!--
clirr:check will fail with NullPointerException
due to missing javax.jms.MessageListener,
however it will trigger download of supporting components
which can allow "ant clirr" to succeed.
Could possibly run on a JavaEE platform.
-->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>clirr-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
<configuration>
<comparisonVersion>1.2.15</comparisonVersion>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>rat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-alpha-3</version>
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>tests/witness/**</exclude>
<exclude>tests/output/**</exclude>
<exclude>tests/classes/**</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.0</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<configuration>
<instructions>
<!-- omit chainsaw and LF5 -->
<Export-Package>!org.apache.log4j.lf5.*,
!org.apache.log4j.chainsaw.*,
org.apache.log4j.*;version=1.2.17;-noimport:=true</Export-Package>
<!-- all other potential imports are covered by DynamicImport-Package earlier -->
<Import-Package>!javax.swing.*,
!com.ibm.uvm.tools.*,
!com.sun.jdmk.comm.*,
javax.jmdns.*;resolution:=optional,
javax.jms.*;resolution:=optional,
javax.mail.*;resolution:=optional,
*</Import-Package>
<Bundle-DocURL>http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2</Bundle-DocURL>
</instructions>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<testSourceDirectory>tests/src/java</testSourceDirectory>
<testResources>
<testResource>
<directory>tests/resources</directory>
</testResource>
</testResources>
</build>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>mac</id>
<activation>
<os>
<family>mac</family>
</os>
</activation>
<properties>
<tools.jar>${java.home}/../Classes/classes.jar</tools.jar>
<m2_repo>${user.home}/.m2/repository</m2_repo>
<ntdll_target>build</ntdll_target>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>default</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<properties>
<tools.jar>${java.home}/../lib/tools.jar</tools.jar>
<m2_repo>${user.home}/.m2/repository</m2_repo>
<ntdll_target>build</ntdll_target>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>maven2-repository.dev.java.net</id>
<name>Java.net Repository for Maven</name>
<url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
<layout>default</layout>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
<artifactId>mail</artifactId>
<version>1.4.3</version>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.openejb</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
<version>5.0-2</version>
<type>jar</type>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- the following dependency is not needed on JDK 1.5 and higher
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.jmx</groupId>
<artifactId>jmxri</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>oro</groupId>
<artifactId>oro</artifactId>
<version>2.0.8</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.2</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
<artifactId>geronimo-jms_1.1_spec</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<reporting>
<excludeDefaults>true</excludeDefaults>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.2</version>
<reportSets>
<reportSet>
<reports>
<report>scm</report>
<report>dependencies</report>
<report>cim</report>
<report>issue-tracking</report>
<report>mailing-list</report>
<report>license</report>
</reports>
</reportSet>
</reportSets>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-jxr-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<reportSets>
<reportSet>
<reports>
<report>changes-report</report>
</reports>
</reportSet>
</reportSets>
<configuration>
<issueLinkTemplate>%URL%/show_bug.cgi?id=%ISSUE%</issueLinkTemplate>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>logging.repo</id>
<url>scp://people.apache.org/www/people.apache.org/builds/logging/repo/</url>
</repository>
<site>
<id>logging.site</id>
<url>scp://localhost/${user.dir}/target/site-deploy</url>
</site>
</distributionManagement>
</project>
What do you think is the cause of the problem? Is the pom file malformed? Are there some unresolved dependencies?
I'm using Apache Maven 3.0.5.
Thanks.

Answer 1

The log4j version you are running was designed with maven2.
Try to run it with maven2.

Answer 2

Scope parameter for junit dependency can only have values - compile, runtime, system.
This indicates to Maven that the dependency will be provided at runtime/compile/system by its container or JDK.
Try removing scope or give valid value.