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

This answer is just as good the top plugin-management answer above (which is to say, it's terrible).

Just delete all the offending xml code in the pom.

Done. Problem solved (except you just broke your maven config...).

Devs should be very careful they understand plugin-management tags before doing any of these solutions. Just slapping plugin-management around your plugins are random is likely to break the maven build for everyone else just to get eclipse to work.