Strange java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException thrown on jetty startup

Question

Whenever I deploy jetty application I hit this issue. Looks like some jar or class is broken.

• Colleagues compiling exactly same code, doesn\'t hit

Answer 1

Use newer version of jetty-maven-plugin.

More information --> Bug 419801 - Upgrade to asm5 for jdk8

So, edit your pom.xml like this：

    org.eclipse.jetty
    jetty-maven-plugin
    9.3.0.M2

Note the groupId is "org.eclipse.jetty".