this should be assigned to the "artifactory" component, but it doesn't show up in the list for me.

[HUDSON] Collecting dependencies info[INFO] [resources:resources

]
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 2 resources
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] null
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jfrog.hudson.MavenDependenciesRecorder.recordMavenDependencies(MavenDependenciesRecorder.java:79)
at org.jfrog.hudson.MavenDependenciesRecorder.postExecute(MavenDependenciesRecorder.java:46)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$Builder.postExecute(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:749)
at hudson.maven.MavenBuilder$Adapter.postExecute(MavenBuilder.java:287)
at hudson.maven.agent.PluginManagerInterceptor$1MojoIntercepterImpl.callPost(PluginManagerInterceptor.java:170)
at hudson.maven.agent.PluginManagerInterceptor.executeMojo(PluginManagerInterceptor.java:183)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:694)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:556)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.forkProjectLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1205)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.forkLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1033)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:663)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:556)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:535)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:387)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:348)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:180)
at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutorInterceptor.execute(LifecycleExecutorInterceptor.java:65)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at hudson.maven.agent.Main.launch(Main.java:165)
at hudson.maven.MavenBuilder.call(MavenBuilder.java:159)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$Builder.call(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:688)
at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$Builder.call(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:632)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:114)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:270)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)

When I disable the artifactory plugin and restart hudson, the same build definition works fine.

What's strange to me is that I'm not using any artifactory features in this build; it's not told to deploy artifacts after the build is complete. If the build isn't even making use of it, how can the plugin get involved and break the build?

I do want to use the artifactory plugin for another build that does deploy artifacts, so if there was even a way to workaround this or some way to disable the plugin for builds where I'm not using it, then I could turn the plugin back on for builds where I do want it and turn it off for ones where I don't as a workaround if other bugs like this prop up.