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Unable to load the mojo 'test' - org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test

I am building my apps with Maven-3 and i guess after auto-refresh of maven-surefire-plugin to 3.0.0-M1 i am not able to do build and getting the below error.
As a initial step, I have cleared the directory /org/apache/maven in my repository however still i am facing the issue. Can anyone advise. Note - if i am downgrading the surefire plugin to 2.x then I am able to build it.
Error log
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 15.444s
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Nov 08 16:04:53 GMT 2018
[INFO] Final Memory: 60M/704M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test (default-test) on project TEST_PROJECT: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test failed: Unable to load the mojo 'test' (or one of its required components) from the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1': com.google.inject.ProvisionException: Guice provision errors:
[ERROR]
[ERROR] 1) No implementation for org.codehaus.plexus.languages.java.jpms.LocationManager was bound.
[ERROR] while locating org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.SurefirePlugin
[ERROR] at ClassRealm[plugin>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1, parent: sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader#5c647e05]
[ERROR] while locating org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojo annotated with #com.google.inject.name.Named(value=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test)
[ERROR]
[ERROR] 1 error
[ERROR] role: org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojo
[ERROR] roleHint: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test (default-test) on project TEST_PROJECT: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test failed: Unable to load the mojo 'test' (or one of its required components) from the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1'
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:225)
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: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: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.plugin.PluginExecutionException: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test failed: Unable to load the mojo 'test' (or one of its required components) from the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1'
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:115)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209)
... 19 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginContainerException: Unable to load the mojo 'test' (or one of its required components) from the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1'
at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultMavenPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultMavenPluginManager.java:488)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:92)
... 20 more
Caused by: org.codehaus.plexus.component.repository.exception.ComponentLookupException: com.google.inject.ProvisionException: Guice provision errors:
1) No implementation for org.codehaus.plexus.languages.java.jpms.LocationManager was bound.
while locating org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.SurefirePlugin
at ClassRealm[plugin>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1, parent: sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader#5c647e05]
while locating org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojo annotated with #com.google.inject.name.Named(value=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test)
1 error
role: org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojo
roleHint: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test
at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:257)
at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:245)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.internal.DefaultMavenPluginManager.getConfiguredMojo(DefaultMavenPluginManager.java:455)
... 21 more
Caused by: com.google.inject.ProvisionException: Guice provision errors:
1) No implementation for org.codehaus.plexus.languages.java.jpms.LocationManager was bound.
while locating org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.SurefirePlugin
at ClassRealm[plugin>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1, parent: sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader#5c647e05]
while locating org.apache.maven.plugin.Mojo annotated with #com.google.inject.name.Named(value=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:3.0.0-M1:test)
1 error
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl$3.get(InjectorImpl.java:974)
at com.google.inject.Scopes$1$1.get(Scopes.java:59)
at org.sonatype.guice.bean.locators.LazyBeanEntry.getValue(LazyBeanEntry.java:83)
at org.sonatype.guice.plexus.locators.LazyPlexusBean.getValue(LazyPlexusBean.java:49)
at org.codehaus.plexus.DefaultPlexusContainer.lookup(DefaultPlexusContainer.java:253)
... 23 more

You can upgrade your maven version to 3.6.0 latest to solve this issue. This can be compatible from 3.3.9 maven version.

Looking at the comments on upgrading maven version, we updated our maven version and was able to overcome the surefire plugin issue using maven 3.3.9. Didn't get any issues.

I found that my NetBeans was using a very old maven (3.0.5) even though I had a brand new maven installed.
On my Mac, I had to go to the menu "Netbeans/Preferences", select the "Maven" tab, and change from "Bundled", browsed to latest, and this got rid of the error above for me.

I had this problem until I discovered that we were not explicitly specifying the version of the surefire plugin. Once I changed our pom.xml file to set the version, it worked.

You can downgrade the version of maven-surefire-plugin to 2.12.4 using the pluginManagement tag. It worked for me.

If you are facing the issue in netbeans IDE you need to change default mavenhome version.follow the below steps
in menu bar tools->Options->click java tab --> under categories --> Execution --> Maven home drop down select manually installed location of the maven

I agree with SomMS's answer
But as an FYI, I found this thread, immediately dismissed that maven version could be the problem the as I just (last week) built this RHEL VM and it was new and shiny
... 15 minutes later I decided to check the maven version to find it was v3.0.5!
Hopefully the next guy doesn't make the same mistake
And if you are wondering how to get the version of whats installed try
mvn --version

I used #SomMS's suggestion and upgraded Maven in order to fix the issue. It worked.
The problem is that, at the time of this writing, the latest version of Maven available on CentOS 7 is 3.0.5 (default repository), which is really old (Feburary 2013). Most other distros have way newer Maven versions available to them.
My only solution was to do a manual download and add path to its binary in PATH env-variable. Downside here is that now rpm/yum are not aware of its existence.

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

Vaadin build failure after changing in the vaadin version and vaadin plugin version

Build failure after I changed the pom.xml file's vaadin version no and vaadin plugin version no
<vaadin.version>7.4.5</vaadin.version>
<vaadin.plugin.version>7.4.5</vaadin.plugin.version>
then i tried to clean and rebuild the project but build failure shows up that says :
Copying 3 resources
--- vaadin-maven-plugin:7.4.5:resources (default) # TEST ---
auto discovered modules [com.test.tb.AppWidgetSet]
4 source files from GWT module com.test.tb.AppWidgetSet
<<< vaadin-maven-plugin:7.4.5:compile (default) # TEST<<<
--- vaadin-maven-plugin:7.4.5:compile (default) # TEST ---
auto discovered modules [com.test.tb.AppWidgetSet]
Compiling module com.test.bb.AppWidgetSet
[ERROR] Unexpected internal compiler error
java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: class com.google.gwt.dev.javac.BytecodeSignatureMaker$CompileDependencyVisitor has interface org.objectweb.asm.ClassVisitor as super class
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:760)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:455)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:367)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:360)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.BytecodeSignatureMaker.visitCompileDependenciesInBytecode(BytecodeSignatureMaker.java:227)
at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.BytecodeSignatureMaker.getCompileDependencySignature(BytecodeSignatureMaker.java:209)
at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompiledClass.getSignatureHash(CompiledClass.java:166)
at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.Dependencies$Ref.<init>(Dependencies.java:42)
at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.Dependencies$Ref.<init>(Dependencies.java:37)
at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.Dependencies.resolve(Dependencies.java:114)
at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationStateBuilder$CompileMoreLater.compile(CompilationStateBuilder.java:366)
at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationStateBuilder.doBuildFrom(CompilationStateBuilder.java:580)
at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationStateBuilder.buildFrom(CompilationStateBuilder.java:513)
at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationStateBuilder.buildFrom(CompilationStateBuilder.java:499)
at com.google.gwt.dev.cfg.ModuleDef.getCompilationState(ModuleDef.java:668)
at com.google.gwt.dev.Precompile.precompile(Precompile.java:255)
at com.google.gwt.dev.Precompile.precompile(Precompile.java:229)
at com.google.gwt.dev.Precompile.precompile(Precompile.java:145)
at com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler.run(Compiler.java:206)
at com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler.run(Compiler.java:158)
at com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler$1.run(Compiler.java:120)
at com.google.gwt.dev.CompileTaskRunner.doRun(CompileTaskRunner.java:55)
at com.google.gwt.dev.CompileTaskRunner.runWithAppropriateLogger(CompileTaskRunner.java:50)
at com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler.main(Compiler.java:127)
[INFO] NETBEANS-ExecEvent:{"exc":{"msg":"="},"mojo":{"phase":"prepare-package","loc":{"col":32,"loc":""}
------------------------------------------------------------------------
BUILD FAILURE
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total time: 55.494s
Finished at: Wed May 20 10:25:50 BDT 2015
Final Memory: 39M/203M
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Failed to execute goal com.vaadin:vaadin-maven-plugin:7.4.5:compile (default) on project GB: Command [[
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\jre\bin\java -Xmx512M -Xss2048k -classpath "F:\official projects\GB-Core\target\classes;F:\official projects\GB-Core\src\main\java;F:\official projects\GB-Core\src\main\resources;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\mysql\mysql-connector-java\5.1.30\mysql-connector-java-5.1.30.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\persistence\eclipselink\2.5.1\eclipselink-2.5.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\persistence\commonj.sdo\2.1.1\commonj.sdo-2.1.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\reveregroup\gwt\gwt-image-loader\1.1.1\gwt-image-loader-1.1.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\addon\jpacontainer\3.2.0\jpacontainer-3.2.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-server\7.4.5\vaadin-server-7.4.5.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-sass-compiler\0.9.12\vaadin-sass-compiler-0.9.12.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\external\flute\flute\1.3.0.gg2\flute-1.3.0.gg2.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-shared\7.4.5\vaadin-shared-7.4.5.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\external\streamhtmlparser\streamhtmlparser-jsilver\0.0.10.vaadin1\streamhtmlparser-jsilver-0.0.10.vaadin1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\external\google\guava\16.0.1.vaadin1\guava-16.0.1.vaadin1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\jsoup\jsoup\1.8.1\jsoup-1.8.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-client-compiled\7.4.5\vaadin-client-compiled-7.4.5.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-client-compiler\7.4.5\vaadin-client-compiler-7.4.5.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\commons-collections\commons-collections\3.1\commons-collections-3.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\commons-logging\commons-logging\1.1.3\commons-logging-1.1.3.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\net\sourceforge\cssparser\cssparser\0.9.11\cssparser-0.9.11.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\ow2\asm\asm\5.0.3\asm-5.0.3.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\ow2\asm\asm-util\5.0.3\asm-util-5.0.3.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\ow2\asm\asm-tree\5.0.3\asm-tree-5.0.3.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\ow2\asm\asm-commons\5.0.3\asm-commons-5.0.3.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-annotations\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-annotations-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-plus\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-plus-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\orbit\javax.transaction\1.1.1.v201105210645\javax.transaction-1.1.1.v201105210645.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-jndi\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-jndi-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-server\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-server-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\orbit\javax.servlet\3.0.0.v201112011016\javax.servlet-3.0.0.v201112011016.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\orbit\javax.mail.glassfish\1.4.1.v201005082020\javax.mail.glassfish-1.4.1.v201005082020.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\orbit\javax.activation\1.1.0.v201105071233\javax.activation-1.1.0.v201105071233.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-webapp\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-webapp-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-xml\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-xml-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-servlet\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-servlet-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-security\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-security-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\orbit\javax.annotation\1.1.0.v201108011116\javax.annotation-1.1.0.v201108011116.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\orbit\org.objectweb.asm\3.1.0.v200803061910\org.objectweb.asm-3.1.0.v200803061910.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-servlets\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-servlets-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-continuation\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-continuation-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-client\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-client-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-http\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-http-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-io\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-io-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\jetty\jetty-util\8.1.12.v20130726\jetty-util-8.1.12.v20130726.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\jdesktop\swing-worker\1.1\swing-worker-1.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\commons-codec\commons-codec\1.8\commons-codec-1.8.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\commons-io\commons-io\2.4\commons-io-2.4.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\commons\commons-lang3\3.1\commons-lang3-3.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\httpcomponents\httpclient\4.3.1\httpclient-4.3.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\httpcomponents\httpcore\4.3\httpcore-4.3.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\httpcomponents\httpmime\4.3.1\httpmime-4.3.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\net\sourceforge\nekohtml\nekohtml\1.9.19\nekohtml-1.9.19.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\xalan\serializer\2.7.1\serializer-2.7.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\xerces\xercesImpl\2.11.0\xercesImpl-2.11.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\xml-apis\xml-apis\1.4.01\xml-apis-1.4.01.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\ibm\icu\icu4j\50.1.1\icu4j-50.1.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-client\7.4.5\vaadin-client-7.4.5.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\w3c\css\sac\1.3\sac-1.3.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\javax\validation\validation-api\1.0.0.GA\validation-api-1.0.0.GA-sources.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-themes\7.4.5\vaadin-themes-7.4.5.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\eclipse\persistence\javax.persistence\2.1.0\javax.persistence-2.1.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\vaadin\addons\imagestrip\3.0\imagestrip-3.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\11\12\1\12-1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\commons-net\commons-net\3.3\commons-net-3.3.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\vaadin\addon\confirmdialog\2.1.1\confirmdialog-2.1.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\javax\servlet\jsp\jsp-api\2.1\jsp-api-2.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\itextpdf\itextpdf\5.0.6\itextpdf-5.0.6.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\bouncycastle\bcmail-jdk14\1.38\bcmail-jdk14-1.38.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\bouncycastle\bcprov-jdk14\1.38\bcprov-jdk14-1.38.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\bouncycastle\bctsp-jdk14\1.38\bctsp-jdk14-1.38.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\fop\1.1\fop-1.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\xmlgraphics-commons\1.5\xmlgraphics-commons-1.5.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-svg-dom\1.7\batik-svg-dom-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-anim\1.7\batik-anim-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-css\1.7\batik-css-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-dom\1.7\batik-dom-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-parser\1.7\batik-parser-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-util\1.7\batik-util-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\xml-apis\xml-apis-ext\1.3.04\xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-bridge\1.7\batik-bridge-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-script\1.7\batik-script-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-js\1.7\batik-js-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-xml\1.7\batik-xml-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\xalan\xalan\2.6.0\xalan-2.6.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-awt-util\1.7\batik-awt-util-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-gvt\1.7\batik-gvt-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-transcoder\1.7\batik-transcoder-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-svggen\1.7\batik-svggen-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-extension\1.7\batik-extension-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlgraphics\batik-ext\1.7\batik-ext-1.7.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\de\steinwedel\vaadin\addon\messagebox\2.0.6\messagebox-2.0.6.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\vaadin\addons\countdownclock\2.0.1\countdownclock-2.0.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\joda-time\joda-time\1.5.2\joda-time-1.5.2.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\poi\poi\3.10-FINAL\poi-3.10-FINAL.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\poi\poi-ooxml\3.10-FINAL\poi-ooxml-3.10-FINAL.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\dom4j\dom4j\1.6.1\dom4j-1.6.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\poi\poi-ooxml-schemas\3.10-FINAL\poi-ooxml-schemas-3.10-FINAL.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\poi\openxml4j\1.0-beta\openxml4j-1.0-beta.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\log4j\log4j\1.2.8\log4j-1.2.8.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\poi\poi-scratchpad\3.2-FINAL\poi-scratchpad-3.2-FINAL.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\javax\servlet\javax.servlet-api\3.1.0\javax.servlet-api-3.1.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\google\code\gson\gson\2.2.4\gson-2.2.4.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\sun\mail\javax.mail\1.5.2\javax.mail-1.5.2.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\javax\activation\activation\1.1\activation-1.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\ant\ant-launcher\1.9.4\ant-launcher-1.9.4.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\xmlbeans\xmlbeans\2.6.0\xmlbeans-2.6.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\stax\stax-api\1.0.1\stax-api-1.0.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\james\apache-mime4j\0.6.1\apache-mime4j-0.6.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-shared-deps\1.0.3\vaadin-shared-deps-1.0.3.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-client-compiler-deps\1.1.0\vaadin-client-compiler-deps-1.1.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\javax\validation\validation-api\1.0.0.GA\validation-api-1.0.0.GA.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\apache\ant\ant\1.8.1\ant-1.8.1.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\google\guava\guava\17.0\guava-17.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\google\guava\guava-gwt\17.0\guava-gwt-17.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\google\code\findbugs\jsr305\1.3.9\jsr305-1.3.9.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\vaadin\addons\dcharts-widget\1.7.0\dcharts-widget-1.7.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\vaadin\addons\animator\2.0.0\animator-2.0.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\org\vaadin\addons\dom\0.1.0\dom-0.1.0.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-client\7.4.5\vaadin-client-7.4.5.jar;C:\Users\User\.m2\repository\com\vaadin\vaadin-client-compiler\7.4.5\vaadin-client-compiler-7.4.5.jar" "-Dgwt.persistentunitcachedir=F:\official projects\test\target\cache" com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler -logLevel INFO -style OBF -war "F:\official projects\test\src\main\webapp\VAADIN\widgetsets" -localWorkers 4 -XfragmentCount -1 -extra "F:\official projects\test\target\extra" -compileReport -deploy "F:\official projects\test\target\temp" -gen "F:\official projects\test\target\.generated" com.test.tb.AppWidgetSet
]] failed with status 1
-> [Help 1]
To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
the link of [Help 1] doesn't give any clue what's going wrong. the project running nicely if i go back to the previous version of vaadin 7.3.10

See this forum thread about this exact problem. The error originates from you having different versions of org.ow2.asm:asm in your classpath. You would have to find the culprit (dependencies in maven) and then put the proper dep before the one pulling in the old one. E.g.:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
<version>5.0.3</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:exec

I needed to build Cloudstack from source and followed this article in the documentation. But everytime I built it with maven, I got stuck with following error. Guessing as a solution, I tried this build with oracle jdk-8, openjdk-7 and openjdk6. And also tried tomcat6 and tomcat8. But got no solution. What is going wrong? I think the reason could be a problem with a plugin but have no idea how to solve. I searched online for this error, but got no workaround.
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:exec (compile) on project cloud-apidoc: Command execution failed. Process exited with an error: 1 (Exit value: 1) -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:exec (compile) on project cloud-apidoc: Command execution failed.
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:217)
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:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
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.MojoExecutionException: Command execution failed.
at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.ExecMojo.execute(ExecMojo.java:362)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209)
... 19 more
Caused by: org.apache.commons.exec.ExecuteException: Process exited with an error: 1 (Exit value: 1)
at org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecutor.executeInternal(DefaultExecutor.java:377)
at org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecutor.execute(DefaultExecutor.java:160)
at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.ExecMojo.executeCommandLine(ExecMojo.java:610)
at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.ExecMojo.execute(ExecMojo.java:352)
... 21 more
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[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/MojoExecutionException
[ERROR]
[ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command
[ERROR] mvn <goals> -rf :cloud-apidoc
Thank you.

The latest version of cloudstack can be found from cloudstack downloads page
Do a git checkout to that version branch and then follow the developer guide you mentioned.
If version is x.y.z, the branch name would usually be x.y
The developer guide is specifically written for 4.2. You may have to adjust the java packages version according to cloudstack version.
make sure the right java versions are installed by doing
java -version and javac -version
cloudstack requires java 1.6 till 4.3 and java 1.7 for 4.4 and above

You should be using the 4.2 tag build since you followed the mentioned tutorial, I have run into a similar issue with that tag version and ended up upgrading to an onward version to resolve the case.
CloudStack has already release the 4.4 version which should resolve you problem, so you may need to update your sources to that tag and retry you build which should work without problems:
$ git fetch origin && git checkout -b 4.4.0 tags/4.4.0
$ mvn clean install -Pdeveloper,systemvm

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.
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