How to fix this no goals have been specified for this build on maven?

Question

I am trying to build this maven project:

1. https://github.com/jottinger/owlapi-tutorial

Within this maven:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>      <groupId>com.autumncode</groupId>     <artifactId>owlapi-tutorial</artifactId>     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>      <dependencyManagement>         <dependencies>             <dependency>                 <groupId>net.sourceforge.owlapi</groupId>                 <artifactId>owlapi-distribution</artifactId>                 <version>[4.0.2,)</version>             </dependency>             <dependency>                 <groupId>net.sourceforge.owlapi</groupId>                 <artifactId>owlapi-rio</artifactId>                 <version>[4.0.2,)</version>             </dependency>             <dependency>                 <groupId>net.sourceforge.owlapi</groupId>                 <artifactId>jfact</artifactId>                 <version>4.0.2</version>             </dependency>             <dependency>                 <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>                 <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>                 <version>1.7.7</version>             </dependency>             <dependency>                 <groupId>org.testng</groupId>                 <artifactId>testng</artifactId>                 <version>[6.9.8,)</version>                 <scope>test</scope>             </dependency>         </dependencies>     </dependencyManagement>      <dependencies>         <dependency>             <groupId>net.sourceforge.owlapi</groupId>             <artifactId>owlapi-distribution</artifactId>         </dependency>         <dependency>             <groupId>net.sourceforge.owlapi</groupId>             <artifactId>owlapi-rio</artifactId>         </dependency>         <dependency>             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>             <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>         </dependency>         <dependency>             <groupId>org.testng</groupId>             <artifactId>testng</artifactId>         </dependency>         <dependency>             <groupId>net.sourceforge.owlapi</groupId>             <artifactId>jfact</artifactId>         </dependency>     </dependencies>      <build>         <plugins>             <plugin>                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>                 <version>3.3</version>                 <configuration>                     <source>1.8</source>                     <target>1.8</target>                 </configuration>             </plugin>         </plugins>     </build> </project> 

I found some questions about it as:

1. No goals have been specified for this build.
2. maven - j2objc - No goals have been specified for this build
3. No goals have been specified for this build
4. Maven how to find out what settings.xml is used (Ubuntu)
5. How to fix this Build Path Error?
6. How to fix this maven warning on Eclipse: "There is no schema defined for this pom.xml"

They are saying I need to set a goal as:

  <goals>     <goal>exploded</goal>   </goals> 

But I do not know how to put it in the configuration file above. This is the full log output when running the initial pom.xml:

mvn -e -X Apache Maven 3.5.0 (ff8f5e7444045639af65f6095c62210b5713f426; 2017-04-03T16:39:06-03:00) Maven home: D:\User\Documents\apache_marven\maven Java version: 1.8.0_131, vendor: Oracle Corporation Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_65\jre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252 OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "x86", family: "windows" [DEBUG] Created new class realm maven.api [DEBUG] Importing foreign packages into class realm maven.api [DEBUG]   Imported: javax.enterprise.inject.* < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: javax.enterprise.util.* < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: javax.inject.* < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.* < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.artifact < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.classrealm < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.cli < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.configuration < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.exception < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.execution < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.execution.scope < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.lifecycle < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.model < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.monitor < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.plugin < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.profiles < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.project < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.reporting < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.repository < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.rtinfo < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.settings < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.toolchain < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.usability < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.wagon.* < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.wagon.authentication < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.wagon.authorization < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.wagon.events < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.wagon.observers < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.wagon.proxy < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.wagon.repository < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.apache.maven.wagon.resource < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.classworlds < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.* < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.component < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.configuration < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.container < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.context < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.lifecycle < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.logging < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.personality < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.Xpp3Dom < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlPullParser < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlPullParserException < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.XmlSerializer < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.* < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.artifact < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.collection < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.deployment < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.graph < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.impl < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.installation < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.internal.impl < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.metadata < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.repository < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.resolution < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.spi < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.transfer < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.eclipse.aether.version < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.fusesource.jansi.* < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.slf4j.* < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.slf4j.helpers.* < plexus.core [DEBUG]   Imported: org.slf4j.spi.* < plexus.core [DEBUG] Populating class realm maven.api [INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on. [DEBUG] Message scheme: color [DEBUG] Message styles: debug info warning error success failure strong mojo project [DEBUG] Reading global settings from D:\User\Documents\apache_marven\maven\conf\settings.xml [DEBUG] Reading user settings from C:\Users\Professional\.m2\settings.xml [DEBUG] Reading global toolchains from D:\User\Documents\apache_marven\maven\conf\toolchains.xml [DEBUG] Reading user toolchains from C:\Users\Professional\.m2\toolchains.xml [DEBUG] Using local repository at C:\Users\Professional\.m2\repository [DEBUG] Using manager EnhancedLocalRepositoryManager with priority 10.0 for C:\Users\Professional\.m2\repository [INFO] Scanning for projects... [DEBUG] Extension realms for project com.mycompany.app:my-app:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT: (none) [DEBUG] Looking up lifecycle mappings for packaging jar from ClassRealm[plexus.core, parent: null] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 0.445 s [INFO] Finished at: 2017-05-05T23:05:24-03:00 [INFO] Final Memory: 4M/15M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] No goals have been specified for this build. You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format <plugin-prefix>:<goal> or <plugin-group-id>:<plugin-artifact-id>[:<plugin-version>]:<goal>. Available lifecycle phases are: validate, initialize, generate-sources, process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources, compile, process-classes, generate-test-sources, process-test-sources, generate-test-resources, process-test-resources, test-compile, process-test-classes, test, prepare-package, package, pre-integration-test, integration-test, post-integration-test, verify, install, deploy, pre-clean, clean, post-clean, pre-site, site, post-site, site-deploy. -> [Help 1] org.apache.maven.lifecycle.NoGoalSpecifiedException: No goals have been specified for this build. You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format <plugin-prefix>:<goal> or <plugin-group-id>:<plugin-artifact-id>[:<plugin-version>]:<goal>. Available lifecycle phases are: validate, initialize, generate-sources, process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources, compile, process-classes, generate-test-sources, process-test-sources, generate-test-resources, process-test-resources, test-compile, process-test-classes, test, prepare-package, package, pre-integration-test, integration-test, post-integration-test, verify, install, deploy, pre-clean, clean, post-clean, pre-site, site, post-site, site-deploy.         at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:94)         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:309)         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:194)         at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:107)         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:993)         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:345)         at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:191)         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)         at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)         at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)         at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)         at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)         at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)         at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)         at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356) [ERROR] [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/NoGoalSpecifiedException 

I would not like to run it from eclipse. I would prefer just to call on the command line mvn, as I am currently doing.

Answer 1

The goal can be specified in the build-plugins-plugin section of your pom.xml, depending on what you want to happen with the application.

E.g. if you want to execute it, you can follow the steps described on the question How do I execute a program using Maven?.

I don't think you can do it with just mvn, but you need to specify what happens (like mvn package or mvn install)

You can read more about goals and phases on Introduction to the Build Lifecycle.