[jboss-dev] another maven lesson

I thought I might share this one, so you're not tapping in the dark (for so long) as I was. Short story: (a) plain build fails with no proper exception (b) adding -X adds some more "confusing" info (c) only exact debugging revealed the _real_ problem The long "story" is somehow documented here: - http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=152721&a... (a) is just useless, no surefile-reports, nothing ... (b) java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.jboss.test.system.controller.configure.value.text.test.TextValue Test Which is totally confusing, since you can see the class in FS. If it just failed, one could check the reports. (c) the _real_ problem: date parsing The test class is parsing some dates in its initialization. The date has US pattern, but my default Locale is not US, it's si_SI (being from Slovenia :-)), which doesn't quite understand that date pattern. Running all tests somehow handles this exception very strangely, running a single test exposed the problem. I changed the dateFormat to lazy initialize + changing the default locale to US, restoring the default on tearDown. HTH.