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java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: jdk.internal.module.ModuleReferenceImpl.descriptor()

I'm getting java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: jdk.internal.module.ModuleReferenceImpl.descriptor() error while executing mvn clean intall in my intellij IDE.
It's started to happen when I downgraded my jdk-11.0.2 to jdk1.8.0_191.
here is the complete stackTrace:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: jdk.internal.module.ModuleReferenceImpl.descriptor()
at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethod(Class.java:2476)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.dependency.utils.DependencyStatusSets.getModuleDescriptor(DependencyStatusSets.java:272)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.dependency.utils.DependencyStatusSets.buildArtifactListOutput(DependencyStatusSets.java:227)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.dependency.utils.DependencyStatusSets.getOutput(DependencyStatusSets.java:165)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.dependency.resolvers.ResolveDependenciesMojo.doExecute(ResolveDependenciesMojo.java:90)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.dependency.AbstractDependencyMojo.execute(AbstractDependencyMojo.java:143)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:137)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:210)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:156)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:148)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:117)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:56)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:305)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:192)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:105)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:956)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:288)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:192)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
and my mvn version details are here :
Admins-MacBook-Pro:carot jangbahadurpatel$ mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.6.0 (97c98ec64a1fdfee7767ce5ffb20918da4f719f3; 2018-10-25T00:11:47+05:30)
Maven home: /usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.6.0/libexec
Java version: 11.0.2, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.2.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_GB, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.14.1", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
What to do to figure it out?

What it's started to happen when I downgraded my jdk-11.0.2 to
jdk1.8.0_191.
This + java.lang.NoSuchMethodException is actually pretty suspicious. The class ModuleReferenceImpl is an extended class of ModuleReference, which was available since Java 9.

jgitflow-maven-plugin and GitHub Issue

My Jenkins release job, which uses jgitflow-maven-plugin to release an Open Source project on GitHub, throws an exception though it used to work.
Maven goals:
jgitflow:release-start -e -X -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2
jgitflow:release-finish -e -X -Dgpg.useagent=false -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2
Exception:
[DEBUG] (develop) committing all poms on branch 'develop'
[DEBUG] (develop) adding file pattern for poms commit: pom.xml
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 8.763 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-02-11T12:31:56+01:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 28M/492M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal external.atlassian.jgitflow:jgitflow-maven-plugin:1.0-m5.1:release-finish (default-cli) on project my-project: Execution default-cli of goal external.atlassian.jgitflow:jgitflow-maven-plugin:1.0-m5.1:release-finish failed. NullPointerException -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal external.atlassian.jgitflow:jgitflow-maven-plugin:1.0-m5.1:release-finish (default-cli) on project my-project: Execution default-cli of goal external.atlassian.jgitflow:jgitflow-maven-plugin:1.0-m5.1:release-finish failed.
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:212)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:116)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:80)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:307)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:193)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:106)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:863)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:288)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:199)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginExecutionException: Execution default-cli of goal external.atlassian.jgitflow:jgitflow-maven-plugin:1.0-m5.1:release-finish failed.
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:145)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:207)
... 20 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.jgitflow.core.command.AbstractGitFlowCommand.failedResult(AbstractGitFlowCommand.java:133)
at com.atlassian.jgitflow.core.command.AbstractGitFlowCommand.doPushIfNeeded(AbstractGitFlowCommand.java:104)
at com.atlassian.jgitflow.core.command.ReleaseFinishCommand.call(ReleaseFinishCommand.java:148)
at com.atlassian.maven.plugins.jgitflow.manager.DefaultFlowReleaseManager.finish(DefaultFlowReleaseManager.java:99)
at com.atlassian.maven.plugins.jgitflow.mojo.ReleaseFinishMojo.execute(ReleaseFinishMojo.java:174)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:134)
... 21 more
What worked:
a release branch has been created in the remote GitHub project
the artifact with the released version number has been pushed to https://oss.sonatype.org/
the local develop branch has been updated with the next development version
But no commit has been pushed to GitHub. The remote release branch does not have any new commits either.
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.atlassian.jgitflow.core.command.AbstractGitFlowCommand.failedResult(AbstractGitFlowCommand.java:133)
at com.atlassian.jgitflow.core.command.AbstractGitFlowCommand.doPushIfNeeded(AbstractGitFlowCommand.java:104)
This looks to me as something went wrong when the plugin wanted to push the commits, but the error message got lost because of a NullPointerException in failedResult!?
Does anyone know what change on the GitHub infrastructure might cause this issue?
Apache Maven 3.3.9 (bb52d8502b132ec0a5a3f4c09453c07478323dc5; 2015-11-10T17:41:47+01:00)
Maven home: /opt/maven
Java version: 1.8.0_161, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.4.0-112-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

The snapshot version 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT of the plugin provided a better error message:
Caused by: com.atlassian.jgitflow.core.exception.JGitFlowGitAPIException: error pushing to develop - status: REJECTED_OTHER_REASON - error: GH006: Protected branch update failed for refs/heads/develop.
error: At least one approved review is required by reviewers with write access.
at com.atlassian.jgitflow.core.command.AbstractGitFlowCommand.doPushIfNeeded(AbstractGitFlowCommand.java:107)
I had to remove the "Include administrators" flag on the branch protection configuration in GitHub.
I filed an issue to make this version available: https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/MJF-298

mvn compilation error LifecycleExecutionException

I've installed maven by adding it to my path. When I run the command mvn -v it returns:
Apache Maven 3.5.2 (138edd61fd100ec658bfa2d307c43b76940a5d7d; 2017-10-18T10:58:13+03:00)
Maven home: /Users/yarkoni/apache-maven-3.5.2 Java version: 9, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-9.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "mac os x",
version: "10.12.6", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
To my understand in order to install I downloaded and added it to my PATH.
I then try to runt he example appEngine app locally:
mvn -Plocal clean appengine:devserver
I get the following error:
[INFO] Compiling 11 source files to /Users/yarkoni/Projects/getting-started-java/bookshelf-standard/2-structured-data/target/bookshelf-standard-2-1.0-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/classes An exception has occurred in the compiler (9-internal).
Please file a bug against the Java compiler via the Java bug reporting page (http://bugreport.java.com) after checking the Bug Database (http://bugs.java.com) for duplicates. Include your program and the following diagnostic in your report. Thank you.
java.io.UncheckedIOException: java.nio.file.NotDirectoryException: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-9.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/modules
at com.sun.tools.javac.file.Locations$BootClassPathLocationHandler.lazy(Locations.java:712)
at com.sun.tools.javac.file.Locations$BootClassPathLocationHandler.isDefault(Locations.java:546)
at com.sun.tools.javac.file.Locations.isDefaultBootClassPath(Locations.java:126)
at com.sun.tools.javac.file.BaseFileManager.isDefaultBootClassPath(BaseFileManager.java:204)
at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Arguments.validate(Arguments.java:479)
at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.prepareCompiler(JavacTaskImpl.java:168)
at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.access$000(JavacTaskImpl.java:69)
at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl$1.call(JavacTaskImpl.java:96)
at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl$1.call(JavacTaskImpl.java:93)
at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.handleExceptions(JavacTaskImpl.java:128)
at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.doCall(JavacTaskImpl.java:93)
at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.call(JavacTaskImpl.java:87)
at com.google.errorprone.BaseErrorProneJavaCompiler$1.call(BaseErrorProneJavaCompiler.java:99)
at com.google.errorprone.BaseErrorProneCompiler.run(BaseErrorProneCompiler.java:137)
at com.google.errorprone.BaseErrorProneCompiler.run(BaseErrorProneCompiler.java:108)
at com.google.errorprone.ErrorProneCompiler.run(ErrorProneCompiler.java:119)
at org.codehaus.plexus.compiler.javac.errorprone.JavacCompilerWithErrorProne$CompilerInvoker.compile(JavacCompilerWithErrorProne.java:222)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:564)
at org.codehaus.plexus.compiler.javac.errorprone.JavacCompilerWithErrorProne.performCompile(JavacCompilerWithErrorProne.java:91)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.compiler.AbstractCompilerMojo.execute(AbstractCompilerMojo.java:943)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.compiler.CompilerMojo.execute(CompilerMojo.java:137)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:134)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:154)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:146)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.executeForkedExecutions(MojoExecutor.java:353)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:198)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:154)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:146)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:117)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:309)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:194)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:107)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:955)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:290)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:194)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:564)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356) Caused by: java.nio.file.NotDirectoryException: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-9.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/modules
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newDirectoryStream(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:407)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newDirectoryStream(Files.java:465)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.list(Files.java:3524)
at com.sun.tools.javac.file.Locations$BootClassPathLocationHandler.systemClasses(Locations.java:665)
at com.sun.tools.javac.file.Locations$BootClassPathLocationHandler.computePath(Locations.java:621)
at com.sun.tools.javac.file.Locations$BootClassPathLocationHandler.lazy(Locations.java:709) ... 49 more

java.nio.file.NotDirectoryException: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-9.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/modules
Seems like /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-9.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/modules is not a directory in your current file system, but it should be. Maybe a someone or something messed with your Java installation. You should make sure this path point to a directory or re-install your JDK.

Look at this. Seems like maven compiler can be used with different compilers (e.g. error-prone, plexus, etc.) and these plugins are slightly behind with JDK development.
You have 2 options:
use JDK 8 for build
find out what configuration you need (e.g. for error prone)
Hope this help someone, I am still investigatin myself which option is better for me.
Edit: I downgraded for now, but I plan to investigate and once I've done that I will update this answer.

Maven build fails with error: Could not find artifact ... at specified path - where the path is slightly incorrect

Running this command:
mvn package -Pcdh4
Here's the error in maven:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project hdfs-nfs-proxy:
Could not resolve dependencies for project
com.cloudera:hdfs-nfs-proxy:jar:0.8.1:
Could not find artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6 at specified path
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/../lib/tools.jar -> [Help 1]
It's the last line in the path where /../ it goes back a directory, the path should be:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/tools.jar
I don't know much about maven or where it's picking up this path, I'm just trying to follow some build instructions.
With Debug:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.730s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Apr 17 07:06:39 UTC 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 8M/360M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project hdfs-nfs-proxy: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.cloudera:hdfs-nfs-proxy:jar:0.8.1: Could not find artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6 at specified path /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/../lib/tools.jar -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal on project hdfs-nfs-proxy: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.cloudera:hdfs-nfs-proxy:jar:0.8.1: Could not find artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6 at specified path /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/../lib/tools.jar
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleDependencyResolver.getDependencies(LifecycleDependencyResolver.java:210)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleDependencyResolver.resolveProjectDependencies(LifecycleDependencyResolver.java:117)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.ensureDependenciesAreResolved(MojoExecutor.java:258)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:201)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:320)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
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)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.DependencyResolutionException: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.cloudera:hdfs-nfs-proxy:jar:0.8.1: Could not find artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6 at specified path /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/../lib/tools.jar
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectDependenciesResolver.resolve(DefaultProjectDependenciesResolver.java:189)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleDependencyResolver.getDependencies(LifecycleDependencyResolver.java:185)
... 22 more
Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.resolution.DependencyResolutionException: Could not find artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6 at specified path /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/../lib/tools.jar
at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultRepositorySystem.resolveDependencies(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:375)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectDependenciesResolver.resolve(DefaultProjectDependenciesResolver.java:183)
... 23 more
Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.resolution.ArtifactResolutionException: Could not find artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6 at specified path /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/../lib/tools.jar
at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:538)
at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifacts(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:216)
at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultRepositorySystem.resolveDependencies(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:358)
... 24 more
Caused by: org.sonatype.aether.transfer.ArtifactNotFoundException: Could not find artifact jdk.tools:jdk.tools:jar:1.6 at specified path /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/../lib/tools.jar
at org.sonatype.aether.impl.internal.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:256)
... 26 more
[ERROR]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException
mvn -v
root#hadoop-hdfsnfsproxy1:/opt/hdfs-nfs-proxy-release-0.8.1# mvn -v
Apache Maven 3.0.4
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.7.0_15, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.5.0-27-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
root#hadoop-hdfsnfsproxy1:/opt/hdfs-nfs-proxy-release-0.8.1#

Your JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK, not a JRE : tools.jar is a lib located in the lib directory of the JDK.

In Linux/Ubuntu box install Sun JDK and point JAVA_HOME to installed JDK.
reference link

Jenkins org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2

I'm running Jenkins to build up a Maven project, and I'm getting the following error, which I have no clue how to solve. I have spent an entire day searching through Google and here, but nothing seems to work.
Thanks in advance for your help and guidance.
Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 08:44:56+0000)
Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.4
Java version: 1.7.0_04, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/JDK/Java_1.6.0/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
[INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
**loads of other INFO and Debug logs**
[DEBUG] Extension realms for project com.mycompany.app:my-app:pom:1.0-SNAPSHOT: (none)
[DEBUG] Looking up lifecyle mappings for packaging pom from ClassRealm[plexus.core, parent: null]
Waiting for Jenkins to finish collecting data
mavenExecutionResult exceptions not empty
message : Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile (default-compile) on project web-platform3: Compilation failure
cause : Compilation failure
Stack trace :
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.0.2:compile (default-compile) on project web-platform3: Compilation failure
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:213)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:320)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.launcher.Maven3Launcher.main(Maven3Launcher.java:79)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchStandard(Launcher.java:329)
at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:239)
at org.jvnet.hudson.maven3.agent.Maven3Main.launch(Maven3Main.java:158)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:98)
at hudson.maven.Maven3Builder.call(Maven3Builder.java:64)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:118)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:326)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:72)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.CompilationFailureException: Compilation failure
at org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractCompilerMojo.execute(AbstractCompilerMojo.java:516)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.CompilerMojo.execute(CompilerMojo.java:114)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209)
... 27 more
channel stopped
Finished: FAILURE

Java version: 1.7.0_04, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/JDK/Java_1.6.0/jre
This looks strange. Are you sure this is correct? Maybe try to use the same version.

The JAVA_HOME should not point to the jre folder. Try with
JAVA_HOME=/var/lib/jenkins/tools/JDK/Java_1.7.0_04/

I created a description for this under this link:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/17683183/1068938
In most of the cases it is a UTF-8 conversion problem
I hope it will help you.