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

You could also switch to the maven-jaxb2-plugin which has support in M2E. Steve Perkins' answer above is generally applicable for those plugins which M2E doesn't support, though.