Maven is suddenly throwing error, Truncated class file

er.robynn picture er.robynn · Aug 15, 2013 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

Yesterday Maven is working fine,,today it shows that problem,I tried backup also it does not work ,and for your information tomcat is working fine its a maven problem ,and I uninstall maven and install it again and all things before posting this question

{Stack trace: 
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: Truncated class file
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:30)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        at java.lang.reflect.Proxy.newProxyInstance(Proxy.java:588)
        at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.annotationForMap(AnnotationParser.java:239)
        at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:229)
        at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:69)
        at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:52)
        at java.lang.reflect.Field.declaredAnnotations(Field.java:1016)
        at java.lang.reflect.Field.getAnnotation(Field.java:1000)
        at com.google.inject.spi.InjectionPoint.getAtInject(InjectionPoint.java:468)
        at com.google.inject.spi.InjectionPoint.getInjectionPoints(InjectionPoint.java:653)
        at com.google.inject.spi.InjectionPoint.forInstanceMethodsAndFields(InjectionPoint.java:358)
        at com.google.inject.spi.InjectionPoint.forInstanceMethodsAndFields(InjectionPoint.java:377)
        at com.google.inject.internal.BindingBuilder.toProvider(BindingBuilder.java:106)
        at com.google.inject.internal.BindingBuilder.toProvider(BindingBuilder.java:43)
        at org.sonatype.guice.plexus.binders.PlexusTypeBinder.hear(PlexusTypeBinder.java:85)
        at org.sonatype.guice.plexus.binders.PlexusXmlBeanModule.configure(PlexusXmlBeanModule.java:91)
        at org.sonatype.guice.plexus.binders.PlexusBindingModule.configure(PlexusBindingModule.java:62)
        at com.google.inject.spi.Elements$RecordingBinder.install(Elements.java:229)
        at com.google.inject.spi.Elements.getElements(Elements.java:103)
        at com.google.inject.spi.Elements.getElements(Elements.java:80)
        at org.sonatype.guice.bean.binders.MergedModule.configure(MergedModule.java:54)
        at com.google.inject.spi.Elements$RecordingBinder.install(Elements.java:229)
        at com.google.inject.spi.Elements.getElements(Elements.java:103)
        at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorShell$Builder.build(InjectorShell.java:136)
        at com.google.inject.internal.InternalInjectorCreator.build(InternalInjectorCreator.java:104)
        at com.google.inject.Guice.createInjector(Guice.java:94)
        at com.google.inject.Guice.createInjector(Guice.java:71)
        at com.google.inject.Guice.createInjector(Guice.java:61)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.addPlexusInjector(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:470)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.<init>(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:196)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.<init>(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:160)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.container(MavenCli.java:375)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:191)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141)
        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.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)
        at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)}

Answer

Anthony Accioly picture Anthony Accioly · Aug 15, 2013

Clean your maven repository:

(By default in your user folder)

~/.m2/repository

Then perform a clean install so it download the dependencies again and recompile your entire project:

mvn clean install