Getting Cobertura Code Coverage with Java 8 using Maven

I recently upgraded a few projects to Java 8 and the Cobertura instrumentation stopped working with a bunch of warnings similar to the following:

 [cobertura] WARN [main] net.sourceforge.cobertura.instrument.CoberturaInstrumenter - Unable to instrument file /home/user/workspace/cache/target/generated-classes/cobertura/com/test/cache/Cache.class  
 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException  
      at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)  
      at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)  
      at org.objectweb.asm.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source)  
      at net.sourceforge.cobertura.instrument.CoberturaInstrumenter.instrumentClass(CoberturaInstrumenter.java:147)  
      at net.sourceforge.cobertura.instrument.CoberturaInstrumenter.instrumentClass(CoberturaInstrumenter.java:121)  
      at net.sourceforge.cobertura.instrument.CoberturaInstrumenter.addInstrumentationToSingleClass(CoberturaInstrumenter.java:234)  
      at net.sourceforge.cobertura.instrument.Main.addInstrumentationToSingleClass(Main.java:298)  
      at net.sourceforge.cobertura.instrument.Main.addInstrumentation(Main.java:307)  
      at net.sourceforge.cobertura.instrument.Main.parseArguments(Main.java:399)  
      at net.sourceforge.cobertura.instrument.Main.main(Main.java:421)  

I'm not sure what the state of the Cobertura and cobertura-maven-plugin projects are, but for my projects I found that manually setting the version for the ASM Core dependency to 5.0.3 gets Cobertura working again. Here are the important parts from the pom.xml:

<build>  
    <plugins>  
        <plugin>  
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>  
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>  
            <version>3.1</version>  
            <configuration>  
                <source>1.8</source>  
                <target>1.8</target>  
            </configuration>  
        </plugin>  
        <plugin>  
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>  
            <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>  
            <version>2.6</version>  
            <dependencies>  
                <dependency>  
                    <groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>  
                    <artifactId>asm</artifactId>  
                    <version>5.0.3</version>  
                </dependency>  
            </dependencies>  
        </plugin>  
    </plugins>  
</build>  

Clearing partitions on a USB stick using Windows 7

I've been trying to access the entire size of an 8GB USB stick.  At one point I must have created multiple partitions on the USB stick when using it with Linux machines.  I didn't know that Windows can only access the first partition on a stick.  The primary partition I had created was rather small, about 250MB.  I wanted to use my USB stick to copy a file that was several GB so this amount of space wasn't going to work.  I looked and looked for answers and finally found out a way to do it without installing 3rd party software.

WARNING: These steps will delete the entire contents of the USB stick!

Open a command line and run the following:

  >diskpart

      (accept the request for privileges)

 DISKPART> list disk

      (determine which disk is your USB stick, for me it was Disk 1)

 DISKPART> select Disk 1

 DISKPART> clean

 DISKPART> create partition primary

This cleared the disk and gave me one large partition that can now be formatted.  Instead of trying to partition it from diskpart, I decided to just use the Disk Management gui using these steps:

1. Start -> Run : diskmgmt.msc
2. Right click on the usb disk in the gui and select Format
3. Select the file system you want to use, I used FAT32 so it would also work in Linux
4. Press OK

I now have a working USB stick that has all disk space available and no partitions hidden from Windows.