Maven:Non-resolvable parent POM and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM

Question

I am using maven 3 to run the application but I am getting the following error:

[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.projec         


        

Answer 1

I'm probably a bit late to the party, but I wrote the junitcategorizer for my thesis project at TOPdesk. Earlier versions indeed used a company internal Parent POM. So your problems are caused by the Parent POM not being resolvable, since it is not available to the outside world.

You can either:

• Remove the block, but then have to configure the Surefire, Compiler and other plugins yourself
• (Only applicable to this specific case!) Change it to point to our Open Source Parent POM by setting:

    com.topdesk
    open-source-parent
    1.2.0