latest build supposed to be working?

How do I determine if the build is known to be broken?

I recently did a new source checkout, found it did not build, and  
tried to go back to my old working build to then find that I  
apparently overwrote my old open-ejb binary in my attempts to get the  
latest build running. My old working build is no longer working with  
the new open-ejb binary that replaced the old. At least, that is what  
I guessed happened.

So, now I am left with trying to get the latest source to build. Here  
is the error I am encountering before the build dies...

    [junit] Running org.openejb.test.stateless.StatelessTestSuite
/usr/local/maven-1.0.2/bin/maven: line 162:   322 Bus  
error               "$JAVACMD" $MAVEN_OPTS - 
Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFact 
oryImpl - 
Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.Documen 
tBuilderFactoryImpl "-Djava.endorsed.dirs=${MAVEN_ENDORSED}" - 
classpath "${MAVEN_HOME}/lib/forehead-${FOREHEAD_VERSION}.jar" "- 
Dforehead.conf.file=${MAVEN_HOME}/bin/forehead.conf" "-Dtools.jar= 
$TOOLS_JAR" "-Dmaven.home=${MAVEN_HOME}" $MAIN_CLASS "$@"

The above error was *preceeded* by a slew of repeating Derby  
serialization expections combined with exceptions related to the  
"Testing ability to throw System Exceptions"...

    [junit] Running org.openejb.test.entity.bmp.BmpTestSuite
11:13:47,314 FATAL [EjbRequestHandler] Invocation result object is  
not serializable: org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedSQLException
java.io.NotSerializableException:  
org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.TableName
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1054)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeArray 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1224)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1050)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1332)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1304)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1247)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1052)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:278)
        at org.openejb.client.EJBResponse.writeExternal 
(EJBResponse.java:176)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbRequestHandler.processRequest 
(EjbRequestHandler.java:260)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbDaemon.service(EjbDaemon.java: 
135)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbServer.service(EjbServer.java:84)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbServer$$FastClassByCGLIB$ 
$d379d2ff.invoke(<generated>)
        at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke 
(FastMethodInvoker.java:38)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke 
(GBeanOperation.java:118)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke 
(GBeanInstance.java:719)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.RawInvoker.invoke 
(RawInvoker.java:57)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.RawOperationInvoker.invoke 
(RawOperationInvoker.java:36)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.ProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept 
(ProxyMethodInterceptor.java:94)
        at org.openejb.server.ServerService$$EnhancerByCGLIB$ 
$42f62608.service(<generated>)
        at org.openejb.server.ServicePool$2.run(ServicePool.java:106)
        at org.openejb.server.ServicePool$3.run(ServicePool.java:129)
        at org.apache.geronimo.pool.ThreadPool 
$ContextClassLoaderRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:123)
        at EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.PooledExecutor$Worker.run 
(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:552)
11:13:47,358 FATAL [EjbRequestHandler] Invocation result object is  
not serializable: org.apache.derby.impl.jdbc.EmbedSQLException
java.io.NotSerializableException:  
org.apache.derby.impl.sql.compile.TableName
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1054)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeArray 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1224)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1050)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1332)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1304)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1247)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:1052)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject 
(ObjectOutputStream.java:278)
        at org.openejb.client.EJBResponse.writeExternal 
(EJBResponse.java:176)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbRequestHandler.processRequest 
(EjbRequestHandler.java:260)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbDaemon.service(EjbDaemon.java: 
135)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbServer.service(EjbServer.java:84)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbServer$$FastClassByCGLIB$ 
$d379d2ff.invoke(<generated>)
        at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke 
(FastMethodInvoker.java:38)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke 
(GBeanOperation.java:118)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke 
(GBeanInstance.java:719)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.RawInvoker.invoke 
(RawInvoker.java:57)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.RawOperationInvoker.invoke 
(RawOperationInvoker.java:36)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.ProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept 
(ProxyMethodInterceptor.java:94)
        at org.openejb.server.ServerService$$EnhancerByCGLIB$ 
$42f62608.service(<generated>)
        at org.openejb.server.ServicePool$2.run(ServicePool.java:106)
        at org.openejb.server.ServicePool$3.run(ServicePool.java:129)
        at org.apache.geronimo.pool.ThreadPool 
$ContextClassLoaderRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:123)
        at EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.PooledExecutor$Worker.run 
(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:552)
11:13:50,239 WARN  [SystemExceptionInterceptor] BasicBmpBean
java.lang.NullPointerException: Testing ability to throw System  
Exceptions
        at  
org.openejb.test.entity.bmp.BasicBmpBean.throwSystemException_NullPointe 
r(BasicBmpBean.java:239)
        at org.openejb.test.entity.bmp.BasicBmpBean$$FastClassByCGLIB 
$$8e1f9d04.invoke(<generated>)
        at org.openejb.dispatch.AbstractMethodOperation.invoke 
(AbstractMethodOperation.java:90)
        at org.openejb.entity.BusinessMethod.execute 
(BusinessMethod.java:68)
        at org.openejb.dispatch.DispatchInterceptor.invoke 
(DispatchInterceptor.java:72)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.naming.java.ComponentContextInterceptor.invoke 
(ComponentContextInterceptor.java:56)
        at org.openejb.ConnectionTrackingInterceptor.invoke 
(ConnectionTrackingInterceptor.java:81)
        at org.openejb.entity.EntityInstanceInterceptor.invoke 
(EntityInstanceInterceptor.java:136)
        at org.openejb.transaction.ContainerPolicy$TxSupports.invoke 
(ContainerPolicy.java:198)
        at  
org.openejb.transaction.TransactionContextInterceptor.invoke 
(TransactionContextInterceptor.java:80)
        at org.openejb.SystemExceptionInterceptor.invoke 
(SystemExceptionInterceptor.java:82)
        at org.openejb.GenericEJBContainer.invoke 
(GenericEJBContainer.java:234)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbRequestHandler.invoke 
(EjbRequestHandler.java:287)
        at  
org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbRequestHandler.doEjbObject_BUSINESS_METHOD 
(EjbRequestHandler.java:315)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbRequestHandler.processRequest 
(EjbRequestHandler.java:188)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbDaemon.service(EjbDaemon.java: 
135)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbServer.service(EjbServer.java:84)
        at org.openejb.server.ejbd.EjbServer$$FastClassByCGLIB$ 
$d379d2ff.invoke(<generated>)
        at net.sf.cglib.reflect.FastMethod.invoke(FastMethod.java:53)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.FastMethodInvoker.invoke 
(FastMethodInvoker.java:38)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke 
(GBeanOperation.java:118)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke 
(GBeanInstance.java:719)
        at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.RawInvoker.invoke 
(RawInvoker.java:57)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.RawOperationInvoker.invoke 
(RawOperationInvoker.java:36)
        at  
org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.ProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept 
(ProxyMethodInterceptor.java:94)
        at org.openejb.server.ServerService$$EnhancerByCGLIB$ 
$42f62608.service(<generated>)
        at org.openejb.server.ServicePool$2.run(ServicePool.java:106)
        at org.openejb.server.ServicePool$3.run(ServicePool.java:129)
        at org.apache.geronimo.pool.ThreadPool 
$ContextClassLoaderRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:123)
        at EDU.oswego.cs.dl.util.concurrent.PooledExecutor$Worker.run 
(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:552)
    [junit] Tests run: 105, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed:  
11.423 sec
    [junit] Running org.openejb.test.entity.cmp.CmpTestSuite

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