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, Wor

Answer 1

What a mess. I don't remember where I found this but I had to add the following to get M2Eclipse to be happy. Even more sad is that it isn't exactly easy to understand why this tag is needed.

      ... various plugins ...

      
        
            
            
                org.eclipse.m2e
                lifecycle-mapping
                1.0.0
                
                    
                        
                            
                                
                                    org.codehaus.mojo
                                    aspectj-maven-plugin
                                    [1.0,)
                                    
                                        test-compile
                                        compile
                                    
                                
                                
                                    
                                
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    

There were a number of other issues with the M2Eclipse plug-in that simply didn't work with Spring Data. In the end I disabled M2Eclipse in favor of the Apache Eclipse plug-in.