Ugh, for some reason the unit tests are failing on my machine, even if I delete every test. The repository for my fix is here: https://github.com/SJrX/parameterized-remote-trigger-plugin/commits/build-finding, and the branch is build-finding.

If you download it, and run mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true install it should produce a jar and hpi file, I think the hpi file is what you install manually.

all the maven downloads I try are failing!!

got maven.. but have never used it. do I need anything more than the command you gave me? it doesn't seem to be doing anything
do I need to tell it what to build or just be in the top level directory with the pom.xml file?

I think just be in the top level directory with the pom.xml file, run the command and then look in the build or output directory.

ty making progress

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.029 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-01-06T13:13:29-05:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 13M/32M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.
5:compile (default-compile) on project Parameterized-Remote-Trigger: Fatal error
compiling: tools.jar not found: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_45\..\lib\
tools.jar -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]

this is actually at the top of the output.

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[WARNING] The POM for org.jenkins-ci.tools:maven-hpi-plugin:jar:1.95 is missing,
no dependency information available
[WARNING] Failed to build parent project for org.jenkins-ci.plugins:Parameterize
d-Remote-Trigger:hpi:2.2.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO]

Sadly I'm not a Maven expert, or even a Jenkins one, I just had to fix this issue a year and a bit ago, and had forgotten about this until this morning when I got an e-mail from this ticket

The only thing I can recommend is maybe try: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugin+tutorial#Plugintutorial-CreatingaNewPlugin or if you want and would trust it I would offer to send you the build I made.

got it to build!
now to install it.

I uploaded it to my test jenkins instance. will let you know if we see the problem again. Thank you very much for your time and efforts.