Maven and Log4j: Missing JMX dependencies

2012-12-13

Maven and Log4j: Missing JMX dependencies

Symptoms

You want to use Log4j, but when performing mvn install, you get:

Compilation failure

error: error reading t:\data\.m2\repository\com\sun\jdmk\jmxtools\1.2.1\jmxtools-1.2.1.jar; error in opening zip file
error: error reading t:\data\.m2\repository\com\sun\jmx\jmxri\1.2.1\jmxri-1.2.1.jar; error in opening zip file

And when you check the file, you see it's a HTML page pointing humans, not Maven, to Sun Maven repository, but to a location from where JMX was removed:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://download.java.net/maven/1/com.sun.jdmk/jars/jmxtools-1.2.1.jar">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache Server at maven-repository.dev.java.net Port 443</address>
</body></html>

Fixing JMXtools and JMXri

You have two options:

  1. Download them from Sun JMX download page,

    extract the jar's and perform:

    mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.sun.jmx -DartifactId=jmxri -Dversion=1.2.1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=jmxri.jar
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.sun.jdmk -DartifactId=jmxtools -Dversion=1.2.1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=jmxtools.jar
  2. Use my Maven repository at Google Code.

I'd also add C), use Sun Maven repository, but JMX was removed from there.

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