The response from @uli_heller was not an explanation for the stack overflow.
Without the parent pom.xml, we get a “Non-resolvable parent POM” error, not the stack overflow. Therefore, we can’t investigate the stack overflow and give you more feedback.
Unfortunately, now lots of child pom.xmls are missing. Please zip everything needed to reproduce the bug.
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[ERROR] Child module /tmp/bug/a/ims-smtp of /tmp/bug/a/pom.xml does not exist @
[ERROR] Child module /tmp/bug/a/ims-smtp-api of /tmp/bug/a/pom.xml does not exist @
[ERROR] Child module /tmp/bug/a/ims-sso-liberty of /tmp/bug/a/pom.xml does not exist @
[ERROR] Child module /tmp/bug/a/ims-sso-lw-agent of /tmp/bug/a/pom.xml does not exist @
[ERROR] Child module /tmp/bug/a/ims-startup-war of /tmp/bug/a/pom.xml does not exist @
[ERROR] Child module /tmp/bug/a/ims-webtier of /tmp/bug/a/pom.xml does not exist @
[ERROR] Child module /tmp/bug/a/ims-webtier-api of /tmp/bug/a/pom.xml does not exist @
[ERROR] Child module /tmp/bug/a/ims-wsapi of /tmp/bug/a/pom.xml does not exist @