incurred in weird fork errors from #failsafe and #surefire plugins running #maven in #docker on #java10.
error dump showed java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter , using useSystemClassLoader=false on both plugins solved the issue. this is an explanation of what the flag does: https://maven.apache.org/plugins-archives/maven-failsafe-plugin-2.7.2/examples/class-loading.html (still no clue of why the issue triggered in the first place though!)
error dump showed java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter , using useSystemClassLoader=false on both plugins solved the issue. this is an explanation of what the flag does: https://maven.apache.org/plugins-archives/maven-failsafe-plugin-2.7.2/examples/class-loading.html (still no clue of why the issue triggered in the first place though!)