Note that JUnit plugin 1.3 is incompatible with Jenkins before 1.587. See comment to JENKINS-26060 for an explanation.

I see. Yes, probably version of core might be the issue. I did upgrade to the latest core, however that one contains another critical bug (related to losing slave restrictions in a job), so I had to revert.

I missed the upgrade to 1.2, so can't confirm.
I can see a similar https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-25657

@DanielBeck: I can confirm that downgrading to 1.2 also works.

Can anyone let me know what is the plugins for PRPC build automation

sridharbbl please use the Jenkins mailing list for questions rather than posting a question to an unrelated bug report.

Alright, resolving this as Cannot Reproduce as upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2 seems like a viable solution. 1.3 has the incompatibility problem but that's inherent in the current dependency declaration / LTS versioning, so please look the other way

(Also, weekly releases are only considered supported for a week, which means if you're still running 1.594 or 1.595, you're on your own )

Encountered this problem on 1.583 when installing v1.3 of jUnit. Tried v1.4, same result. Manually resinstalled v1.2 works. The problem is still in there somewhere ...
Archiving artifacts
Recording test results
ERROR: Publisher hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitResultArchiver aborted due to exception
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hudson/tasks/junit/JUnitParser$ParseResultCallable
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitParser.parseResult(JUnitParser.java:90)
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitResultArchiver.parse(JUnitResultArchiver.java:120)
at hudson.tasks.junit.JUnitResultArchiver.perform(JUnitResultArchiver.java:137)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepCompatibilityLayer.perform(BuildStepCompatibilityLayer.java:74)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:770)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:734)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:183)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:683)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1770)
at hudson.matrix.MatrixRun.run(MatrixRun.java:146)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:89)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:240)

You may want to upgrade core version.
I was on 1.586 and upgrade finally solved it for me, as advised by Daniel Beck above.

Silly me
RTFM before writing...
Thanx Waldek M

Reverting issue to its previous state since it is explained in the comments why it doesn't work with 1.583.

The release-notes for the plugin however should perhaps state the incompatibility even though it is compatible with later versions of Jenkins.