Upgrade Jaxb depedency ---------------------- Key: DROOLS-2138 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/DROOLS-2138 Project: Drools Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Petar Tahchiev Assignee: Michael Biarnes Kiefer I'm sorry if this is no the correct place to report this but when building my project with jdk9, I get this warning: {code} [WARNING] Failed to build parent project for com.sun.xml.bind.mvn:jaxb-bundles:pom:2.2.11 [WARNING] Failed to build parent project for com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-core:jar:2.2.11 [WARNING] Unable to obtain POM for artifact : com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-core:jar:2.2.11:compile org.apache.maven.project.InvalidProjectModelException: Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs: [ERROR] 'dependencyManagement.dependencies.dependency.systemPath' for com.sun:tools:jar must specify an absolute path but is ${tools.jar} @ com.sun.xml.bind.mvn:jaxb-parent:[unknown-version], /home/petar/.m2/repository/com/sun/xml/bind/mvn/jaxb-parent/2.2.11/jaxb-parent-2.2.11.pom, line 164, column 29 for project at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.transformError(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:193) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromRepository(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:240) at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromRepository(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:251) at org.codehaus.mojo.license.api.DefaultDependenciesTool.loadProjectDependencies(DefaultDependenciesTool.java:233) at org.codehaus.mojo.license.api.DefaultThirdPartyHelper.loadDependencies(DefaultThirdPartyHelper.java:152) at org.codehaus.mojo.license.AddThirdPartyMojo.loadDependencies(AddThirdPartyMojo.java:294) at org.codehaus.mojo.license.AbstractAddThirdPartyMojo.init(AbstractAddThirdPartyMojo.java:400) at org.codehaus.mojo.license.AbstractLicenseMojo.execute(AbstractLicenseMojo.java:169) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:134) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:208) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:154) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:146) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:117) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:81) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder.build(SingleThreadedBuilder.java:51) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:128) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:309) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:194) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:107) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:993) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:345) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:191) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:564) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356) {code} which happens to be because of the jaxb dependency you have here: https://github.com/kiegroup/droolsjbpm-integration/blob/master/kie-server... which requires the {{tools.jar}} (from jaxb-parent-2.2.11 pom.xml): {code} <!-- JDK dependencies --> <dependency> <groupId>com.sun</groupId> <artifactId>tools</artifactId> <version>1.6</version> <scope>system</scope> <systemPath>${tools.jar}</systemPath> </dependency> {code}