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

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.