title: Maven GAE Failed to execute goal com.google.appengine:appengine-maven-plugin:1.9.12:devserver [...] NoSuchElementException
body: <p>Maven is having this problem and none of the solutions I found worked :(.</p>
  
  <p>pom.xml
  <a href="https://github.com/Brkk/text-share/blob/master/pom.xml" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/Brkk/text-share/blob/master/pom.xml</a></p>
  
  <p>web.xml
  <a href="https://github.com/Brkk/text-share/blob/master/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/Brkk/text-share/blob/master/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</a></p>
  
  <p>Maven is generating</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] Using the builder org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.builder.singlethreaded.SingleThreadedBuilder with a thread count of 1
  [INFO]                                                                         
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Building text-share 1.0-SNAPSHOT
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] &gt;&gt;&gt; appengine-maven-plugin:1.9.12:devserver (default-cli) @ text-share &gt;&gt;&gt;
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ text-share ---
  [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
  [INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /Users/paulotabarro/Desktop/workspace/text-share/src/main/resources
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) @ text-share ---
  [INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:testResources (default-testResources) @ text-share ---
  [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
  [INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /Users/paulotabarro/Desktop/workspace/text-share/src/test/resources
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ text-share ---
  [INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test (default-test) @ text-share ---
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.4:war (default-war) @ text-share ---
  [INFO] Packaging webapp
  [INFO] Assembling webapp [text-share] in [/Users/paulotabarro/Desktop/workspace/text-share/target/text-share-1.0-SNAPSHOT]
  [INFO] Processing war project
  [INFO] Copying webapp webResources [/Users/paulotabarro/Desktop/workspace/text-share/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF] to [/Users/paulotabarro/Desktop/workspace/text-share/target/text-share-1.0-SNAPSHOT]
  [INFO] Copying webapp resources [/Users/paulotabarro/Desktop/workspace/text-share/src/main/webapp]
  [INFO] Webapp assembled in [101 msecs]
  [INFO] Building war: /Users/paulotabarro/Desktop/workspace/text-share/target/text-share-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] &lt;&lt;&lt; appengine-maven-plugin:1.9.12:devserver (default-cli) @ text-share &lt;&lt;&lt;
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] --- appengine-maven-plugin:1.9.12:devserver (default-cli) @ text-share ---
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] Google App Engine Java SDK - Running Development Server
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] Retrieving Google App Engine Java SDK from Maven
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 4.692 s
  [INFO] Finished at: 2014-10-14T19:12:13-08:00
  [INFO] Final Memory: 16M/184M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] Failed to execute goal com.google.appengine:appengine-maven-plugin:1.9.12:devserver (default-cli) on project text-share: Execution default-cli of goal com.google.appengine:appengine-maven-plugin:1.9.12:devserver failed. NoSuchElementException -&gt; [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
  </code></pre>