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

I encountered this using Eclipse v4.3 (Kepler) and Maven 3.1.

The solution is to use a JDK and not a JRE for your Eclipse project. Make sure to try maven clean and test from Eclipse just to download missing JAR files.