This is a solution to our forum members:
Dont use the latest apache maven 3.3 version for building the project, instead use apache maven 3.2.5 is a stable version to build.
Latest apache maven 3.3 have issues in one of the dependency plugin, So when we try to build using the latest version of maven,it fails with the below error.
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.day.jcr.vault:content-package-maven-plugin:0.0.20:package (default-package) on project smarter-content: Execution default-package of goal com.day.jcr.vault:content-package-maven-plugin:0.0.20:package failed: A required class was missing while executing com.day.jcr.vault:content-package-maven-plugin:0.0.20:package: org/slf4j/helpers/MarkerIgnoringBase [ERROR] ----------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] realm = extension>com.day.jcr.vault:content-package-maven-plugin:0.0.20 [ERROR] strategy = org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy [ERROR] urls[0] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/com/day/jcr/vault/content-package-maven-plugin/0.0.20/content-package-maven-plugin-0.0.20.jar [ERROR] urls[1] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/backport-util-concurrent/backport-util-concurrent/3.1/backport-util-concurrent-3.1.jar [ERROR] urls[2] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-interpolation/1.11/plexus-interpolation-1.11.jar [ERROR] urls[3] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar [ERROR] urls[4] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/maven-archiver/2.3/maven-archiver-2.3.jar [ERROR] urls[5] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-archiver/1.0-alpha-9/plexus-archiver-1.0-alpha-9.jar [ERROR] urls[6] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-io/1.0-alpha-1/plexus-io-1.0-alpha-1.jar [ERROR] urls[7] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/1.4.9/plexus-utils-1.4.9.jar [ERROR] urls[8] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/sonatype/plexus/plexus-sec-dispatcher/1.3/plexus-sec-dispatcher-1.3.jar [ERROR] urls[9] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/sonatype/plexus/plexus-cipher/1.4/plexus-cipher-1.4.jar [ERROR] urls[10] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/commons-httpclient/commons-httpclient/3.1/commons-httpclient-3.1.jar [ERROR] urls[11] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.0.4/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar [ERROR] urls[12] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.2/commons-codec-1.2.jar [ERROR] urls[13] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/mojo/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin/1.8/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin-1.8.jar [ERROR] urls[14] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/mojo/animal-sniffer/1.8/animal-sniffer-1.8.jar [ERROR] urls[15] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/ow2/asm/asm-all/4.0/asm-all-4.0.jar [ERROR] urls[16] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/mojo/java-boot-classpath-detector/1.8/java-boot-classpath-detector-1.8.jar [ERROR] urls[17] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/reporting/maven-reporting-api/2.0.1/maven-reporting-api-2.0.1.jar [ERROR] urls[18] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-sink-api/1.0-alpha-6/doxia-sink-api-1.0-alpha-6.jar [ERROR] urls[19] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/commons-cli/commons-cli/1.0/commons-cli-1.0.jar [ERROR] urls[20] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-interactivity-api/1.0-alpha-4/plexus-interactivity-api-1.0-alpha-4.jar [ERROR] urls[21] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/shared/maven-common-artifact-filters/1.2/maven-common-artifact-filters-1.2.jar [ERROR] urls[22] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/shared/maven-plugin-testing-harness/1.1/maven-plugin-testing-harness-1.1.jar [ERROR] urls[23] = file:/var/lib/jenkins/.m2/repository/org/apache/sling/org.apache.sling.commons.json/2.0.6/org.apache.sling.commons.json-2.0.6.jar
