This is an excerpt of Maven 3.1 output on a project, where I artificially added some errors to the source code: [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.3:compile (default-compile) @ test --- [INFO] Compiling 2 source files to /home/test/test/target/classes [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [WARNING] COMPILATION WARNING : [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [WARNING] /home/test/test/src/main/java/foo/bar/Test.java:[27,43] unchecked conversion required: java.util.Collection found: java.util.ArrayList [INFO] 1 warning [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR : [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] /home/test/test/src/main/java/foo/bar/Test.java:[28,9] cannot find symbol symbol: method test() location: class foo.bar.Test