Well i have been struggling with this strange issue when i build the activiti distribution using "ant clean distro" . The build fails with a message
A required class is missing : org.apache.maven.surefire.util.NestedCheckedException
I checked the maven-surefire-plugin-2.7.1 and found that there is no such package in surefire as util. I further found several such issues on the internet. This is a bug called SUREFIRE-85 and can be found in JIRA and CODEHAUS. When i searched on the internet i could find the surefire source containing util.NestedCheckedException but not in the plugin jar. How can the plugin jar miss an important class. I browsed several repositories, but could not find the jar containing the above package