Building Hbase 1.3.1 with JDK 8

  1 min read
  July 02, 2020
  hbase build jdk8


HBase is a opensource NoSQL store built on top of Hadoop HDFS filesystem. Read more about it here

Building HBase 1.3.1 with JDK 8 will bring out some new problems (Well there are some other issues as well). This blog post is to help people who are walking on the same way as I am.

Assumptions

  1. You have installed JDK 8
  2. HBase uses maven for builds, you should have installed maven.
  3. The sources are already downloaded and are present in /home/xyz/hbase

mvn install won’t work?

No, you will hit some compilation issues and some shell script failures.

Compilation error

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:findbugs-maven-plugin:3.0.0:findbugs (default) on project hbase: Unable to parse configuration of mojo org.codehaus.mojo:findbugs-maven-plugin:3.0.0:findbugs for parameter pluginArtifacts: Cannot assign configuration entry ‘pluginArtifacts’ with value ‘${plugin.artifacts}’ of type java.util.Collections.UnmodifiableRandomAccessList to property of type java.util.ArrayList -> [Help 1]

Shell script failure

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.4.0:exec (concat-NOTICE-files) on project hbase-assembly: Command execution failed.: Process exited with an error: 1 (Exit value: 1) -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.4.0:exec (concat-NOTICE-files) on project hbase-assembly: Command execution failed.

Ok how do I solve them?

  1. Edit the file /home/xyz/hbase/pom.xml and make the following changes.

    Before

     ...
 <plugin>  
   <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>  
   <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>  
   <version>**3.0.0**</version>  
   <!--NOTE: Findbugs 3.0.0 requires jdk7-->
 ...

    After

     ...
 <plugin>  
   <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>  
   <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>  
   <version>**3.0.4**</version>  
   <!--NOTE: Findbugs 3.0.0 requires jdk7-->
 ...

  2. Edit the file /home/xyz/hbase/hbase-assembly/pom.xml and make the following changes. New versions of bash seems to not accept the extra line at the end

    Before

     ...
     <argument>bash</argument>
     <argument>-c</argument>
     <argument>cat maven-shared-archive-resources/META-INF/NOTICE \\
     \`find ${project.build.directory}/dependency -iname NOTICE -or -iname NOTICE.txt\` \\  
     </argument>
 ....

    After

     ...
     <argument>bash</argument>  
     <argument>-c</argument>  
     <argument>cat maven-shared-archive-resources/META-INF/NOTICE \\  
     \`find ${project.build.directory}/dependency -iname NOTICE -or -iname NOTICE.txt\`  
     </argument>  
 ...