Does not work with latest homebrew / openjdk 18

[mrflip]

Doing brew install openjdk@17 and editing ~/.mavenrc to have

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/Cellar/openjdk@17/17.0.2/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home

resolved it.

The error I was seeing (log below) is possibly caused by the dependency on org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.6, which others have reported is not compatible with latest MacOS. Tried a lot of ways to force a newer dependency but the above fix was straightforward.

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  15.588 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2022-04-03T13:49:19-05:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal io.confluent:kafka-connect-maven-plugin:0.12.0:kafka-connect (default) on project kafka-connect-elasticsearch: Execution default of goal io.confluent:kafka-connect-maven-plugin:0.12.0:kafka-connect failed: Error executing assembly: Unable to execute mojo: Execution null of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.6:jar failed: An API incompatibility was encountered while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.6:jar: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: null
[ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] realm =    plugin>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.6
[ERROR] strategy = org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy
[ERROR] urls[0] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/2.6/maven-jar-plugin-2.6.jar
[ERROR] urls[1] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-jdk14/1.5.6/slf4j-jdk14-1.5.6.jar
[ERROR] urls[2] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/jcl-over-slf4j/1.5.6/jcl-over-slf4j-1.5.6.jar
[ERROR] urls[3] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/reporting/maven-reporting-api/2.2.1/maven-reporting-api-2.2.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[4] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-sink-api/1.1/doxia-sink-api-1.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[5] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/doxia/doxia-logging-api/1.1/doxia-logging-api-1.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[6] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[7] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/commons-cli/commons-cli/1.2/commons-cli-1.2.jar
[ERROR] urls[8] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-interactivity-api/1.0-alpha-4/plexus-interactivity-api-1.0-alpha-4.jar
[ERROR] urls[9] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/backport-util-concurrent/backport-util-concurrent/3.1/backport-util-concurrent-3.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[10] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/sonatype/plexus/plexus-sec-dispatcher/1.3/plexus-sec-dispatcher-1.3.jar
[ERROR] urls[11] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/sonatype/plexus/plexus-cipher/1.4/plexus-cipher-1.4.jar
[ERROR] urls[12] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-interpolation/1.11/plexus-interpolation-1.11.jar
[ERROR] urls[13] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/maven-archiver/2.6/maven-archiver-2.6.jar
[ERROR] urls[14] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/shared/maven-shared-utils/0.7/maven-shared-utils-0.7.jar
[ERROR] urls[15] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/com/google/code/findbugs/jsr305/2.0.1/jsr305-2.0.1.jar
[ERROR] urls[16] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/3.0.20/plexus-utils-3.0.20.jar
[ERROR] urls[17] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-archiver/2.9/plexus-archiver-2.9.jar
[ERROR] urls[18] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-io/2.4/plexus-io-2.4.jar
[ERROR] urls[19] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/commons-io/commons-io/2.2/commons-io-2.2.jar
[ERROR] urls[20] = file:/Users/flip/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-compress/1.9/commons-compress-1.9.jar
[ERROR] Number of foreign imports: 1
[ERROR] import: Entry[import  from realm ClassRealm[project>io.confluent:kafka-connect-elasticsearch:12.1.0-SNAPSHOT, parent: ClassRealm[maven.api, parent: null]]]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------: Index 1 out of bounds for length 1
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginExecutionException

[OneCricketeer]

No Java above 11 is documented as being supported.

https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html