 This appears to be caused by a bug in the JDK: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6724345 I've pushed a workaround for this problem. Please update your checkout of rosjava and try again. --- Originally posted by [damonkohler](https://answers.ros.org/users/653/damonkohler/) with karma: 3838 on 2012-04-23 This answer was **ACCEPTED** on the original site Post score: 1 --- ### Original comments **Comment by [LucaGhera](https://answers.ros.org/users/871/lucaghera/) on 2012-04-24**:\ It still fails for me with a new error: * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':rosjava_messages:generateSources'. > Command '/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java' finished with (non-zero) exit value 1. **Comment by [damonkohler](https://answers.ros.org/users/653/damonkohler/) on 2012-04-25**:\ Please run gradlew with --info or --stacktrace and open a new question. **Comment by [ira](https://answers.ros.org/users/1953/ira/) on 2012-04-26**:\ Thanks, it is successfully built now. **Comment by [Yeison Rodriguez](https://answers.ros.org/users/4057/yeison-rodriguez/) on 2013-03-24**:\ What was the resolution to this problem? I'm having the new issue listed here.