Getting "OverConstrainedVersionException" in jaxb-maven-plugin

"KARR, DAVID via users" <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Jan 2026 21:51:04 +0000
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I'm having an issue that might be a problem with our use of the jaxb-maven-plugin, or it may be something else.  We only see a particular error with respect to that plugin, but the exception we get is not specific to the plugin, so perhaps this is a wider issue.

We had been using jaxb-maven-plugin version 4.0.8. We support many services using this.  Very rarely we have seen an error stating 'Cannot invoke "java.io.File.toURI()" because "file" is null'. It provides no other diagnostics, so we can't tell what this means.  I created an issue in the plugin's github repo, but that didn't really get anywhere.

However, I thought I would try upgrading the plugin to the latest available version, which is 4.0.12.  When I did that, I got different, perhaps more specific errors, but I'm still at a loss to understand it.  It's possible these errors are not specific to the plugin, which is why I'm asking here.

It gives a bunch of errors like this:
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09:06:06 [ERROR] artifactResolutionResult has exceptions : [org.apache.maven.artifact.versioning.OverConstrainedVersionException: The artifact has no valid ranges
  <groupid>:<artifactid>:jar:3.0.1

Path to dependency: 
	1) <groupid>:BillingServicesOrchestrationMs:jar:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
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I am seeing a number of these messages, some of which for the same GAV, and some for different versions of the same artifact.  Looking at the OverConstrainedVersionException, it says "Occurs when ranges exclude each other and no valid value remains." Ok, I can see how that would be a problem. The "problem" is, although we do use version ranges for these artifacts, we only have a single version range, and they are perfectly ordinary.  I even tried looking at the effective pom (verbose mode), and I find no surprises there.

I don't understand how to debug this.