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Unexpected build failures...

From: Peter Williams <Pete.Williams_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:11:56 -0700

What can we do about build failures that look like this? Is there a way
to defend against such things? My guess is this was caused by some sort
of network glitch.

-Peter

Executing Maven: -B -B -f /files/hudson/workspace/glassfish-activation/hk2/pom.xml clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building javax.activation API v.1.1
[INFO] task-segment: [clean, install]
[INFO] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [clean:clean]
[HUDSON] Archiving /files/hudson/workspace/glassfish-activation/hk2/pom.xml to /files/hudson/server/jobs/glassfish-activation/modules/javax.activation$activation/builds/2008-10-15_00-23-54/archive/javax.activation/activation/1.1.1/pom.xml
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 5 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Oct 15 00:24:03 PDT 2008
[INFO] Final Memory: 4M/7M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
channel stopped
Build was marked for publishing on http://hudson.glassfish.org/
finished: FAILURE