The current Error Summary for build is whatever is piped to the the standard error log. While this works quite well with Ant, where things like compilation errors are logged to the error stream, most Maven 2 errors are logged to standard out, rendering it pretty useless.
For Maven 2 builds, we should ignore the standard error and parse std out for the errors instead.
An example of this problem is at http://opensource.bamboo.atlassian.com/browse/STRUTS-MAIN-204
The error summary doesn't really give any useful info. It's only when you check out the "Logs" tab and scroll to the bottom, you can see that it's actually a compilation error. This is what we'd want in the Error Summary
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59 [INFO] Compilation failure
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59 /home/ j2ee/xml-data/build-dir/STRUTS-MAIN/plugins/tiles/src/main/ java/org/apache/struts2/views/tiles/TilesResult.java:[104,17] cannot find symbol
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59 symbol : method render(java.lang.String,javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest,javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse)
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59 location: interface org.apache.tiles.TilesContainer
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59 /home/ j2ee/xml-data/build-dir/STRUTS-MAIN/plugins/tiles/src/main/ java/org/apache/struts2/tiles/ StrutsTilesContainerFactory.java:[85,4] org.apache.struts2.tiles.StrutsTilesContainerFactory.StrutsTilesContextFactory is not abstract and does not override abstract method createRequestContext(org.apache.tiles.TilesApplicationContext,java.lang.Object,java.lang.Object) in org.apache.tiles.context.TilesContextFactory
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59 /home/ j2ee/xml-data/build-dir/STRUTS-MAIN/plugins/tiles/src/main/ java/org/apache/struts2/tiles/ StrutsTilesContainerFactory.java:[102,49] cannot find symbol
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59 symbol : method createRequestContext(org.apache.tiles.TilesApplicationContext,java.lang.Object[])
07-Mar-2007 19:40:59 location: interface org.apache.tiles.context.TilesContextFactory
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Brian Lane
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