Maven webstart plugin not finding dependencies

Question

Hoping someone can help me with this strange one. I’m trying to run the webstart plugin but it doesn’t seem to be able to find the main class within the jar being produce. The pom is as simple as it can get, and the class Test exists, and is being compiled and placed in the jar. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <name>Desktop Components</name>
  <groupId>com.test</groupId>
  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo.webstart</groupId>
        <artifactId>webstart-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>process-resources</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>jnlp-download-servlet</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>

        <configuration>
          <jnlpFiles>
            <jnlpFile>
              <jarResources>
                <jarResource>
                  <groupId>com.test</groupId>
                  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
                  <version>1.0</version>
                  <mainClass>Test</mainClass>
                </jarResource>
              </jarResources>
            </jnlpFile>
          </jnlpFiles>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

Here is the Maven trace:

C:\TEMP\webstart-test>mvn webstart:jnlp –e
+ Error stacktraces are turned on.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Desktop Components
[INFO]    task-segment: [webstart:jnlp] (aggregator-style)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Preparing webstart:jnlp
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Desktop Components
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\TEMP\webstart-test\src\main\resources
[INFO] [webstart:jnlp-download-servlet {execution: default}]
[INFO] No templateFilename found for launch2.jnlp. Will use the default template.
[INFO] No resources found in C:\TEMP\webstart-test\src\main\jnlp\resources
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/test/test/1.0/test-1.0.pom
[INFO] Unable to find resource 'com.test:test:pom:1.0' in repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
No template specified Using default one.

***** Webstart JAR URL: jar:file:/C:/apache-maven-2.2.1/repo/org/codehaus/mojo/webstart/webstart-maven-plugin/1.0-alpha-2/webstart-maven-plugin-1.0-alpha-2.jar!
/
[INFO] [compiler:compile {execution: default-compile}]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [resources:testResources {execution: default-testResources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\TEMP\webstart-test\src\test\resources
[INFO] [compiler:testCompile {execution: default-testCompile}]
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO] [surefire:test {execution: default-test}]
[INFO] No tests to run.
[INFO] [jar:jar {execution: default-jar}]
[INFO] Building jar: C:\TEMP\webstart-test\target\test-1.0.jar
[INFO] [webstart:jnlp {execution: default-cli}]
[INFO] No resources found in C:\TEMP\webstart-test\src\main\jnlp\resources
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Failure to run the plugin:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace

The trace follows

org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failure to run the plugin:
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:719)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:569)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:284)
        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:592)
        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)

Now the Caused by trace

Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException: Failure to run the plugin:
        at org.codehaus.mojo.webstart.AbstractJnlpMojo.execute(AbstractJnlpMojo.java:289)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:490)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
        ... 17 more

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.codehaus.mojo.webstart.AbstractJnlpMojo.execute(AbstractJnlpMojo.java:214)
        ... 19 more

And the final Maven trace

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 9 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Nov 13 11:16:54 GMT 2009
[INFO] Final Memory: 12M/22M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Answer 1

This is problem with mainClass for JNLP

You need something like this

<configuration>
   <jnlp>
      <mainClass>com.test.Test</mainClass>
   </jnlp>
<configuration>