Spring Boot fails to run maven-surefire-plugin ClassNotFoundException org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter

Question

Running maven (3.5.2) build of a Spring Boot 2.0.2.RELEASE applicaton (generated by web initialiser with web dependencies) fails executing the maven

Answer 1

The false solution provideded by jediz did allow my surefire tests to run, but broke class loading in some of my Spring Boot integration tests.

The following maven-surefire-plugin configuration worked for me:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-surefire-plugin
    
        -Djdk.net.URLClassPath.disableClassPathURLCheck=true