How to solve “Plugin execution not covered by life

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

I had the exact same problem after updating m2e and solved it by reinstalling Maven Integration for Eclipse WTP.

As it turns out, I uninstalled it trying to update m2e from version 0.x to 1.x

Answer 2

Instead of messing up your pom file, I would suggest you to go to Show View → Markers in Eclipse, select and delete the markers of appropriate errors.

Answer 3

I encountered this using Eclipse v4.3 (Kepler) and Maven 3.1.

The solution is to use a JDK and not a JRE for your Eclipse project. Make sure to try maven clean and test from Eclipse just to download missing JAR files.

Answer 4

As an addendum to the previous answers -- there's a workaround I just discovered for if you can't or don't want to add all this boilerplate to your project POM. If you look in the following location:

{Eclipse_folder}/plugins/org.eclipse.m2e.lifecyclemapping.defaults_{m2e_version}

You should find a file called lifecycle-mapping-metadata.xml where you can make the same changes described in the other answers and in M2E plugin execution not covered.

Answer 5

Where find WTP:

Mouse down on < plugin > in pom.xml and 'Discover new m2e connectors'.

I installed them all what are default checked and it works.

Answer 6

I fixed it following blog post Upgrading Maven integration for SpringSource Tool Suite 2.8.0.

Follow the advice on the section called "Uh oh…my projects no longer build". Even when it's intended for SpringSource Tool Suite I used it to fix a regular Eclipse installation. I didn't have to modify my pom files.