How to solve "Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration" for Spring Data Maven Builds

Question

I am trying to work with Spring Data and Neo4j. I started by trying to follow this guide linked to by the main site. In particular I based my pom.xml off of the "Hello, World!" example file. Here is a snip from my pom.xml for the plugin that is causing the issues...

<plugin> <!-- Required to resolve aspectj-enhanced class features -->     <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>     <artifactId>aspectj-maven-plugin</artifactId>     <version>1.0</version>     <configuration>         <outxml>true</outxml>         <aspectLibraries>             <aspectLibrary>                 <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>                 <artifactId>spring-aspects</artifactId>             </aspectLibrary>             <aspectLibrary>                 <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>                 <artifactId>spring-data-neo4j</artifactId>             </aspectLibrary>         </aspectLibraries>         <source>1.6</source>         <target>1.6</target>     </configuration>     <executions>         <!-- ERROR HERE IN ECLIPSE SEE BELOW FOR FULL MESSAGE -->         <execution>             <goals>                 <goal>compile</goal>                 <goal>test-compile</goal>             </goals>         </execution>     </executions>     <dependencies>         <dependency>             <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>             <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>             <version>${aspectj.version}</version>         </dependency>         <dependency>             <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>             <artifactId>aspectjtools</artifactId>             <version>${aspectj.version}</version>         </dependency>     </dependencies> </plugin> 

The error I am seeing is:

 Multiple annotations found at this line:     - Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.codehaus.mojo:aspectj-maven-plugin:1.0:compile (execution: default, phase: process-classes)     - Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.codehaus.mojo:aspectj-maven-plugin:1.0:test-compile (execution: default, phase: process-classes) 

I am running Eclipse 3.6.2 and m2e 0.13. I'm not a Maven expert, so please be very explanatory in your answers if possible.

I've also tried m2e 1.0.0 via this update site and still get the same error.

Answer 1

In my case of a similar problem, instead of using Andrew's suggestion for the fix, it worked simply after I introduced <pluginManagement> tag to the pom.xml in question. Looks like that error is due to a missing <pluginManagement> tag. So, in order to avoid the exceptions in Eclipse, one needs to simply enclose all the plugin tags inside a <pluginManagement> tag, like so:

<build>     <pluginManagement>         <plugins>             <plugin> ... </plugin>             <plugin> ... </plugin>                   ....         </plugins>     </pluginManagement> </build> 

Once this structure is in place, the error goes away.