After closer inspection of the stack trace from the command prompt when running the mvn clean install -Dmaven.skip.test=true command I solved the issue:
C:\pathToRootOfProject>mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
[INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error building POM (may not be
this project's POM).
Project ID: unknown
Reason: Could not find the model file
'pathToRootOfProject\xxx'. for project
unknown
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException:
Could not find the model file
'pathToRootOfProject\xxx'. for project
unknown
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:404)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:272)
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.project.ProjectBuildingException:
Could not find the model file
'pathToRootOfProject\xxx'. for project
unknown
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1575)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:506)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:200)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:604)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:487)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:560)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:391)
... 12 more Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException:
pathToRootOfProject\xxx (The system
cannot find the file specified)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native
Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.(FileInputStream.java:106)
at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlReader.(XmlReader.java:124)
at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.XmlStreamReader.(XmlStreamReader.java:67)
at hidden.org.codehaus.plexus.util.ReaderFactory.newXmlReader(ReaderFactory.java:118)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.readModel(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1570)
... 18 more [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: < 1 second [INFO]
Finished at: Mon Jun 06 20:42:19 CEST
2011 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/15M
[INFO]
Now I renamed one of my modules but the child name (xxx) was left in my root pom.xml:
<modules>
<module>a</module>
<module>b</module>
<module>c</module>
<module>xxx</module>
<module>d</module>
<module>f</module>
</modules>
Once I deleted that line, and rebuild the project, the issue disappeared.
Cheers,
Despot