KieScanner does not initialize if missing to locate a kjar dependency of test scope

Steps to reproduce Project: onlyfor-test-dep mvn clean install Project: test-deps mvn clean deploy Simulate the test dependency being not resolvable Now remove the "com.acme:onlyfor-test-dep" depedency from the local .m2 maven repo. This step is important to simulate another runtime environment which does NOT have access to this depedency - and shall not be needed, this only used is in scope "test". Project: run_test_deps compile and run java main of : com.acme.run_test_deps.App Stacktrace below. Please notice that NPE causes the call to kieServices.newKieScanner( kContainer ); will NOT return an instance of KieScanner. 2016-02-03 17:50:25,648 INFO [com.acme.run_test_deps.App] (main) start 2016-02-03 17:50:25,677 DEBUG [org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieRepositoryImpl] (main) KieModule Lookup. ReleaseId com.acme:test-deps:LATEST was not in cache, checking classpath 2016-02-03 17:50:25,677 DEBUG [org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieRepositoryImpl] (main) KieModule Lookup. ReleaseId com.acme:test-deps:LATEST was not in cache, checking maven repository [WARNING] The POM for com.acme:onlyfor-test-dep:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT is missing, no dependency information available 2016-02-03 17:50:29,197 INFO [org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieRepositoryImpl] (main) KieModule was added: ZipKieModule[releaseId=com.acme:test-deps:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT,file=C:\Users\mmortari\.m2\repository\com\acme\test-deps\1.0.0-SNAPSHOT\test-deps-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar] 2016-02-03 17:50:30,539 DEBUG [org.kie.api.builder.KieScanner] (main) org.drools:drools-core:jar:6.2.0.Final resolved to C:\Users\mmortari\.m2\repository\org\drools\drools-core\6.2.0.Final\drools-core-6.2.0.Final.jar 2016-02-03 17:50:30,540 DEBUG [org.kie.api.builder.KieScanner] (main) org.mvel:mvel2:jar:2.2.4.Final resolved to C:\Users\mmortari\.m2\repository\org\mvel\mvel2\2.2.4.Final\mvel2-2.2.4.Final.jar 2016-02-03 17:50:30,541 DEBUG [org.kie.api.builder.KieScanner] (main) log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.17 resolved to C:\Users\mmortari\.m2\repository\log4j\log4j\1.2.17\log4j-1.2.17.jar 2016-02-03 17:50:30,542 DEBUG [org.kie.api.builder.KieScanner] (main) com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:jar:2.5.0 resolved to C:\Users\mmortari\.m2\repository\com\google\protobuf\protobuf-java\2.5.0\protobuf-java-2.5.0.jar 2016-02-03 17:50:30,543 DEBUG [org.kie.api.builder.KieScanner] (main) org.kie:kie-internal:jar:6.2.0.Final resolved to C:\Users\mmortari\.m2\repository\org\kie\kie-internal\6.2.0.Final\kie-internal-6.2.0.Final.jar 2016-02-03 17:50:30,544 DEBUG [org.kie.api.builder.KieScanner] (main) com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream:jar:1.4.7 resolved to C:\Users\mmortari\.m2\repository\com\thoughtworks\xstream\xstream\1.4.7\xstream-1.4.7.jar 2016-02-03 17:50:30,545 DEBUG [org.kie.api.builder.KieScanner] (main) org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.2 resolved to C:\Users\mmortari\.m2\repository\org\slf4j\slf4j-api\1.7.2\slf4j-api-1.7.2.jar 2016-02-03 17:50:30,546 DEBUG [org.kie.api.builder.KieScanner] (main) org.drools:drools-compiler:jar:6.2.0.Final resolved to C:\Users\mmortari\.m2\repository\org\drools\drools-compiler\6.2.0.Final\drools-compiler-6.2.0.Final.jar 2016-02-03 17:50:31,310 WARN [org.kie.scanner.MavenRepository] (main) Unable to resolve artifact: com.acme:onlyfor-test-dep:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT org.eclipse.aether.resolution.ArtifactResolutionException: Could not find artifact com.acme:onlyfor-test-dep:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT in internalmirror (http: //localhost:8081/nexus/content/groups/ public /) at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:444) at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifacts(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:246) at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolveArtifact(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:223) at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultRepositorySystem.resolveArtifact(DefaultRepositorySystem.java:294) at org.kie.scanner.MavenRepository.resolveArtifact(MavenRepository.java:216) at org.kie.scanner.MavenRepository.resolveArtifact(MavenRepository.java:205) at org.kie.scanner.MavenRepository.resolveArtifact(MavenRepository.java:201) at org.kie.scanner.ArtifactResolver.resolveArtifact(ArtifactResolver.java:51) at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.indexAtifacts(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:330) at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.setKieContainer(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:73) at org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieServicesImpl.newKieScanner(KieServicesImpl.java:115) at com.acme.run_test_deps.App.main(App.java:20) Caused by: org.eclipse.aether.transfer.ArtifactNotFoundException: Could not find artifact com.acme:onlyfor-test-dep:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT in internalmirror (http: //localhost:8081/nexus/content/groups/ public /) at org.eclipse.aether.connector.basic.ArtifactTransportListener.transferFailed(ArtifactTransportListener.java:39) at org.eclipse.aether.connector.basic.BasicRepositoryConnector$TaskRunner.run(BasicRepositoryConnector.java:355) at org.eclipse.aether.util.concurrency.RunnableErrorForwarder$1.run(RunnableErrorForwarder.java:67) at org.eclipse.aether.connector.basic.BasicRepositoryConnector$DirectExecutor.execute(BasicRepositoryConnector.java:581) at org.eclipse.aether.connector.basic.BasicRepositoryConnector.get(BasicRepositoryConnector.java:249) at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.performDownloads(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:520) at org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:421) ... 11 more Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.indexAtifacts(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:331) at org.kie.scanner.KieRepositoryScannerImpl.setKieContainer(KieRepositoryScannerImpl.java:73) at org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieServicesImpl.newKieScanner(KieServicesImpl.java:115) at com.acme.run_test_deps.App.main(App.java:20)