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

Note that the M2Eclipse (m2e) version 1.7.0 available in today's Eclipse Neon release train supports new syntax for specifying lifecycle mapping metadata. As a result boilerplate like this (here we're telling m2e to ignore the goal):

  
    
    
      org.eclipse.m2e
      lifecycle-mapping
      1.0.0
      
        
          
            
              
                org.codehaus.mojo
                exec-maven-plugin
                [1.5.0,)
                
                  exec
                
              
              
                
              
            
          
        
      
    
  

can be replaced with a single line in the plugin's execution node:

See the release notes for details.