A required class was missing while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war

Question

Here is my clean install -x result:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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Answer 1

In my case the situation was this: I had an offline server on which I had to perform the build. For that I had compiled everything locally first and then transferred repository folder to the offline server.

Problem - build works locally but not on the server, even thou they both have same maven version, same repository folder, same JDK.

Cause: on my local machine I had additional custom "" entry in settings.xml. When I added same to the settings.xml on the server then my issues disappeared.