Flex Maven Issue - Error: unable to resolve 'assets/*.png'

Solution

One of the Flex projects that I manage for a company uses maven build environment. I added couple of icon images to the assets folder so that it can be used in the code using @Embed notation. The code compiled and work fine on my Macbook pro, however failed to build on the Hudson (now Jenkins) build server. After digging through many online rat holes, I finally figured out the problem was a missing "/" in the begining of the url. 

Bad URL

<mx:Style>
 #previousButton {
  skin: Embed(source="assets/icon/up_22x22.png");
  disabled-skin: Embed(source="assets/icon/up_disabled_22x22.png");
 }
 #nextButton {
  skin: Embed(source="assets/icon/down_22x22.png");
  disabled-skin: Embed(source="assets/icon/down_disabled_22x22.png");
 }
</mx:Style>

Correct URL

<mx:Style>
 #previousButton {
  skin: Embed(source="/assets/icon/up_22x22.png");
  disabled-skin: Embed(source="/assets/icon/up_disabled_22x22.png");
 }
 #nextButton {
  skin: Embed(source="/assets/icon/down_22x22.png");
  disabled-skin: Embed(source="/assets/icon/down_disabled_22x22.png");
 }
</mx:Style>

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