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

In Eclipse Luna 4.4.0, you can chose to ignore this error in preferences

Window > Preferences > Maven > Errors/Warnings > Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration. Select Ignore / Warning / Error as you wish.

Also, in the quick fix (Ctrl + 1) for this error, it gives an option to mark goal as ignored in Eclipse build in Eclipse preferences (experimental)

This is a cleaner way, as it doesn't modify your pom.xml.

You will need to do a Maven > Update project to fix the same error in any other project as well.

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In STS(Spring-tool-suite), you can choose to ignore this error in preferences

Window > Preferences > Maven > Errors/Warnings > Plugin execution not covered by life-cycle configuration. Select Ignore / Warning / Error as your wish. Then. Right click the project click Maven and update the project then error will gone.