Maven compiler error - maven

Question

Hello I've got a project that builds from my computer just fine, I however encountered this issue in the other environment (server) :
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[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
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[INFO] Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile': Unable to load the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin'. A required class is missing: org/codehaus/plexus/compiler/manager/NoSuchCompilerException
org.codehaus.plexus.compiler.manager.NoSuchCompilerException
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[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
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[INFO] Total time: 58 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Dec 18 09:45:20 CST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 32M/490M
This has to do something with maven complier plugin I assume, what could one do in this case?
Per Behe suggestion executed with -e :
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[INFO] Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile': Unable to load the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin'. A required class is missing: org/codehaus/plexus/compiler/manager/NoSuchCompilerException
org.codehaus.plexus.compiler.manager.NoSuchCompilerException
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[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile': Unable to load the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin'. A required class is missing: org/codehaus/plexus/compiler/manager/NoSuchCompilerException
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:698)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:556)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:535)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:60)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginManagerException: Unable to load the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin'. A required class is missing: org/codehaus/plexus/compiler/manager/NoSuchCompilerException
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:669)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:468)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
... 17 more
Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.exception.ComponentLookupException: Unable to lookup component 'org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojoorg.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile', it could not be created
at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:335)
at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:440)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:652)
... 19 more
Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.component.factory.ComponentInstantiationException: Could not instanciate component: role: 'null', implementation: 'org.apache.maven.plugin.CompilerMojo'
at org.codehaus.plexus.component.factory.java.JavaComponentFactory.makeException(JavaComponentFactory.java:77)
at org.codehaus.plexus.component.factory.java.JavaComponentFactory.newInstance(JavaComponentFactory.java:62)
at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.createComponentInstance(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:1464)
at org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.AbstractComponentManager.createComponentInstance(AbstractComponentManager.java:93)
at org.codehaus.plexus.component.manager.PerLookupComponentManager.getComponent(PerLookupComponentManager.java:48)
at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:331)
... 21 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/plexus/compiler/manager/NoSuchCompilerException
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:2389)
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2699)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:326)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
at org.codehaus.plexus.component.factory.java.JavaComponentFactory.newInstance(JavaComponentFactory.java:44)
... 25 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.plexus.compiler.manager.NoSuchCompilerException
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:303)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.RealmClassLoader.loadClassDirect(RealmClassLoader.java:195)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.DefaultClassRealm.loadClass(DefaultClassRealm.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.DefaultClassRealm.loadClass(DefaultClassRealm.java:274)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.RealmClassLoader.loadClass(RealmClassLoader.java:214)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:316)
... 31 more

Answer 1

I would suggest to run
mvn -v
to find out if you are using different Maven versions on the two machines.
In parallel I would suggest to upgrade to a newer version of the compiler plugin. 2.0.2 is VERY old. At least upgrade to 2.3.2 or even 2.5.1 if not the latest 3.0.
In addition I would specify source and target to the language level (e.g. Java 7 below) you need so you would end up with something like this
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
That should either fix it or at least give you more info into what to look at next.

Answer 2

I had a similar problem when doing maven clean.
it was using maven-clean-plugin version 2.2.
I added the following to my build and that solved the problem:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</plugin>