I commented out scala module in contribs/pom.xml to get around the issue...
Now I get a build error with javadoc. Note I am still using JDK6. What 
are the limitations of building jersey with jdk6 and how can they be 
bypassed? Thanks.
[INFO] Checking timestamp of 
/home/najmi/jvnet/jersey/jersey/samples/extended-wadl-webapp/target/generated-sources/xjc/com/sun/jersey/samples/extendedwadl/model/Items.java
[INFO] Checking timestamp of 
/home/najmi/jvnet/jersey/jersey/samples/extended-wadl-webapp/target/generated-sources/xjc/com/sun/jersey/samples/extendedwadl/model/ObjectFactory.java
[INFO] Checking timestamp of 
/home/najmi/jvnet/jersey/jersey/samples/extended-wadl-webapp/target/generated-sources/xjc/com/sun/jersey/samples/extendedwadl/model/package-info.java
[INFO] the last modified time of the inputs is  1243967090000
[INFO] the last modified time of the outputs is 1244659697000
[INFO] files are up to date
[INFO] [javadoc:javadoc {execution: default}]
usage: javadoc [options] [packagenames] [sourcefiles] [@files]
-overview <file>          Read overview documentation from HTML file
-public                   Show only public classes and members
-protected                Show protected/public classes and members 
(default)
-package                  Show package/protected/public classes and members
-private                  Show all classes and members
-help                     Display command line options and exit
-doclet <class>           Generate output via alternate doclet
-docletpath <path>        Specify where to find doclet class files
-sourcepath <pathlist>    Specify where to find source files
-classpath <pathlist>     Specify where to find user class files
-exclude <pkglist>        Specify a list of packages to exclude
-subpackages <subpkglist> Specify subpackages to recursively load
-breakiterator            Compute 1st sentence with BreakIterator
-bootclasspath <pathlist> Override location of class files loaded
              by the bootstrap class loader
-source <release>         Provide source compatibility with specified 
release
-extdirs <dirlist>        Override location of installed extensions
-verbose                  Output messages about what Javadoc is doing
-locale <name>            Locale to be used, e.g. en_US or en_US_WIN
-encoding <name>          Source file encoding name
-quiet                    Do not display status messages
-J<flag>                  Pass <flag> directly to the runtime system
1 error
[INFO] 
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[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] 
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[INFO] An error has occurred in JavaDocs report generation:Exit code: 1 
- javadoc: error - invalid flag: -author
Command line was:/home/najmi/jdk1.6.0_12/jre/../bin/javadoc @options
Farrukh Najmi wrote:
>
> I know Jakub is on a well deserved vacation after J1...
>
> Unfortunately the build issues (latest r2402) are even more basic 
> (with JDK 6).
>
> mvn clean
>
> just hangs on following message. Apparently scala-tools.org is down.
>
> I don't even know what scala is, but my jersey dev is blocked by it :-(
>
> Perhaps jersey should not depend upon unreliable sites?
>
> [INFO] Building Mandel -- Jersey sample
> [INFO]    task-segment: [clean]
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] artifact org.scala-tools:maven-scala-plugin: checking for 
> updates from scala-tools.org
>
>
> Jakub Podlesak wrote:
>>
>> There was a small issue in the scala module pom file, which i have 
>> just fixed (there were 2 versions of scala lib used there).
>> It should be all right for jdk 1.5, but something is still broken 
>> with jdk1.6, related to
>>
>> import xml.NodeSeq
>>
>> i suspect, it has something to do with jaxb.
>
>
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Regards,
Farrukh
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