Maven JAXB2 XJC plugin: M2E plugin execution not covered

Question

I am using using the jaxb2 xjc plugin for generating java files from a XSD. Therefore I used to configure my pom.xml as follows:

Answer 1

It turns out that I did eventually find an answer! Eclipse's integration with Maven has known compatibility issues with numerous Maven plugins.

When you can successfully run a Maven build from the command-line outside of Eclipse, yet but Eclipse shows "execution not covered" errors in your POM, then try adding this plugin:

    ...
    
        
            
            
                org.eclipse.m2e
                lifecycle-mapping
                1.0.0
                
                    
                        
                            
                                
                                    org.codehaus.mojo
                                    jaxb2-maven-plugin
                                    [1.3,)
                                    
                                        xjc
                                    
                                
                                
                                    
                                
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    

As indicated in the above comment, this plugin doesn't do anything outside of Eclipse. It simply tells Eclipse when to execute the JAXB plugin, since Eclipse isn't smart enough to figure that out on its own.

I found this snippet on another StackOverflow question, and adopted it to the "jaxb2-maven-plugin" plugin rather than the plugin at issue in the the other question.