title: cobertura parsing error(cobertura.javancss.parser.ParseException)
body: <p>I am fairly new to deployment and code coverage issues and now i have a problem ,my application uses cobertura maven plugin 2.7 and covertura version 2.1.1 and java 8. I am getting an error while running my deployment in the cobertura report</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ERROR] net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.ParseException: Encountered " "&gt;" "&gt; "" at line 45, column 36.
  Was expecting one of:
  "assert" ...
  "boolean" ...
  "byte" ...
  "char" ...
  "double" ...
  "enum" ...
  "false" ...
  "float" ...
  "int" ...
  "long" ...
  "new" ...
  "null" ...
  "short" ...
  "super" ...
  "this" ...
  "true" ...
  "void" ...
  &lt;INTEGER_LITERAL&gt; ...
  &lt;FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL&gt; ...
  &lt;CHARACTER_LITERAL&gt; ...
  &lt;STRING_LITERAL&gt; ...
  &lt;IDENTIFIER&gt; ...
  "(" ...
  "!" ...
  "~" ...
  "++" ...
  "--" ...
  "+" ...
  "-" ...
  
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.generateParseException(JavaParser.java:10490)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.jj_consume_token(JavaParser.java:10366)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.UnaryExpression(JavaParser.java:3175)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.MultiplicativeExpression(JavaParser.java:3090)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.AdditiveExpression(JavaParser.java:3085)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ShiftExpression(JavaParser.java:3027)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.RelationalExpression(JavaParser.java:2990)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.InstanceOfExpression(JavaParser.java:2977)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.AssigmentExpression(JavaParser.java:2959)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.EqualityExpression(JavaParser.java:2886)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.AndExpression(JavaParser.java:2860)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ExclusiveOrExpression(JavaParser.java:2843)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.InclusiveOrExpression(JavaParser.java:2826)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ConditionalAndExpression(JavaParser.java:2808)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ConditionalOrExpression(JavaParser.java:2790)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ConditionalExpression(JavaParser.java:2774)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.Expression(JavaParser.java:2718)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ArgumentList(JavaParser.java:3620)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.Arguments(JavaParser.java:3610)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.PrimarySuffix(JavaParser.java:3511)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.PrimaryExpression(JavaParser.java:3384)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.PostfixExpression(JavaParser.java:3330)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.UnaryExpressionNotPlusMinus(JavaParser.java:3237)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.UnaryExpression(JavaParser.java:3171)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.MultiplicativeExpression(JavaParser.java:3090)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.AdditiveExpression(JavaParser.java:3061)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ShiftExpression(JavaParser.java:3027)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.RelationalExpression(JavaParser.java:2990)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.InstanceOfExpression(JavaParser.java:2977)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.AssigmentExpression(JavaParser.java:2959)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.EqualityExpression(JavaParser.java:2886)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.AndExpression(JavaParser.java:2860)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ExclusiveOrExpression(JavaParser.java:2843)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.InclusiveOrExpression(JavaParser.java:2826)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ConditionalAndExpression(JavaParser.java:2808)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ConditionalOrExpression(JavaParser.java:2790)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ConditionalExpression(JavaParser.java:2774)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.Expression(JavaParser.java:2718)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.VariableInitializer(JavaParser.java:1744)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.VariableDeclarator(JavaParser.java:1672)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.LocalVariableDeclaration(JavaParser.java:4019)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.BlockStatement(JavaParser.java:3941)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.Block(JavaParser.java:3934)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.MethodDeclaration(JavaParser.java:1987)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ClassBodyDeclaration(JavaParser.java:1039)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ClassBody(JavaParser.java:898)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.UnmodifiedClassDeclaration(JavaParser.java:824)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.ClassDeclaration(JavaParser.java:728)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.TypeDeclaration(JavaParser.java:575)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.CompilationUnit(JavaParser.java:318)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.JavaParser.parse(JavaParser.java:100)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.Javancss._measureSource(Javancss.java:192)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.Javancss._measureRoot(Javancss.java:268)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.Javancss.&lt;init&gt;(Javancss.java:347)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.JavancssFactory.newInstance(JavancssFactory.java:40)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.ComplexityCalculator.getFunctionMetricsForSingleFile(ComplexityCalculator.java:243)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.ComplexityCalculator.getAccumlatedCCNForSingleFile(ComplexityCalculator.java:143)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.ComplexityCalculator.getCCNForSourceFileNameInternal(ComplexityCalculator.java:273)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.ComplexityCalculator.getCCNForPackageInternal(ComplexityCalculator.java:208)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.ComplexityCalculator.getCCNForProject(ComplexityCalculator.java:174)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.xml.XMLReport.&lt;init&gt;(XMLReport.java:70)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.xml.XMLReportFormatStrategy.save(XMLReportFormatStrategy.java:18)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.NativeReport.export(NativeReport.java:31)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.CompositeReport.export(CompositeReport.java:19)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.ReportMain.parseArgumentsAndReport(ReportMain.java:91)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.ReportMain.generateReport(ReportMain.java:141)
  at net.sourceforge.cobertura.reporting.ReportMain.main(ReportMain.java:151)
  net.sourceforge.cobertura.javancss.parser.ParseException: Encountered " "&gt;" "&gt; "" at line 48, column 36.
  `Was expecting one of:
  "assert" ...
  "boolean" ...
  "byte" ...
  "char" ...
  "double" ...
  "enum" ...
  "false" ...
  "float" ...
  "int" ...
  "long" ...
  "new" ...
  "null" ...
  "short" ...
  "super" ...
  "this" ...
  "true" ...
  "void" ...
  &lt;INTEGER_LITERAL&gt; ...
  &lt;FLOATING_POINT_LITERAL&gt; ...
  &lt;CHARACTER_LITERAL&gt; ...
  &lt;STRING_LITERAL&gt; ...
  &lt;IDENTIFIER&gt; ...
  "(" ...
  "!" ...
  "~" ...
  "++" ...
  "--" ...
  "+" ...
  "-" ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It would be great to receive some kind of suggestions as this is a blocker for the application,Thank You</p>