“Plugin not found for prefix” error in Eclipse

Question

In Eclipse I imported a maven-based project which uses maven jetty plugin. If I run mvn jetty:run from command line, everything works fine. If I add a run con

Answer 1

I met this problem too, an easier way to solve this is to edit your pom.xml, add following plugin:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      ...
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
        <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>7.6.8.v20121106</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

Note:

1. jetty-maven-plugin is used for jetty version 7 and above, if you want jetty version 6, you should use maven-jetty-plugin

2. for the version, you may want to have a look at here and here for your desired version's full name.

Answer 2

I've got this issue in eclipse after importing an appengine project.

The target:

mvn appengine:devserver

The error:

[ERROR] No plugin found for prefix 'appengine' in the current project and in the plugin groups [org.apache.maven.plugins, org.codehaus.mojo] available from the repositories [local (/Users/averasko/.m2/repository), central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2)] -> [Help 1]

The problem was in the incorrect base directory in the eclipse run configuration. When maven does not see a pom.xml file and is asked to run some non-standard target if fails like this as it don't know anything about the plugin that defines the target.

The solution is to correct the base directory to wherever your pom.xml file resides.

Answer 3

if you following this tutorial:

http://tapestry.apache.org/creating-the-skeleton-application.html

don't forget to follow this one crucial instruction:

Change into the newly created directory, and execute the command:

Answer 4

It does not work for me from command-line either.

Can you check if it works after adding the following in settings.xml as documented?

<pluginGroups>
    <pluginGroup>org.mortbay.jetty</pluginGroup>
</pluginGroups>

Also note that there are two different versions of the plugin - the older maven jetty plugin and the newer jetty maven plugin.

Answer 5

I apologize for wasting your time. Now I looked through maven warnings which appeared in Eclipse console after I ran the run configuration. I noticed

[WARNING] Failed to retrieve plugin descriptor for Plugin [org.mortbay.jetty:maven-jetty-plugin]: null

so it became obvious why it couldn't recognize jetty: prefix. Couple of lines above I saw a bunch of warnings about missing plugin versions. So I added a version specification for the jetty plugin (<version> entry in pom.xml) and it solved the problem. I forgot a common rule that if something breaks the first thing to check is warnings you get.