Eclipse + Maven – Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration

December 29, 2014 SJ Eclipse + Maven 0

In this article, we will investigate various possibilities to suppress/resolve “Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration” error

1. Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration:

After configuring/installing Maven with Eclipse IDE, you may still get some issues –> one such issue is “Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration”

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2. Solution:

There are two ways available to fix this issue

  1. Ignore plugin
  2. Add this plugin to Lifecycle Mapping

2.1 Ignore Plugin:

Add below <pluginManagement> under <build> tag in the same pom.xml

For our example,

  • groupId –> org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons
  • artifactId –> jaxws-maven-plugin
  • versionRange –> [1.0.0,)
  • goal –> wsimport

Note: Above parameters changes according to the plugin, for which it throws this error

pom.xml (partial)

&lt;pluginManagement>
	&lt;plugins>
		&lt;plugin>
			&lt;groupId>org.eclipse.m2e&lt;/groupId>
			&lt;artifactId>lifecycle-mapping&lt;/artifactId>
			&lt;version>1.0.0&lt;/version>
			&lt;configuration>
				&lt;lifecycleMappingMetadata>
					&lt;pluginExecutions>
						&lt;pluginExecution>
							&lt;pluginExecutionFilter>
								&lt;groupId>org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons&lt;/groupId>
								&lt;artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId>
								&lt;versionRange>[1.0.0,)&lt;/versionRange>
								&lt;goals>
									&lt;goal>wsimport&lt;/goal>
								&lt;/goals>
							&lt;/pluginExecutionFilter>
							&lt;action>
								&lt;execute>
									&lt;runOnIncremental>false&lt;/runOnIncremental>
								&lt;/execute>
							&lt;/action>
						&lt;/pluginExecution>
					&lt;/pluginExecutions>
				&lt;/lifecycleMappingMetadata>
			&lt;/configuration>
		&lt;/plugin>
	&lt;/plugins>
&lt;/pluginManagement>

2.2 Add this plugin to Lifecycle Mapping

Another way is to add this particular plugin to “Lifecycle Mapping” of Maven

  • Step 1: Open Eclipse –> Windows –> Preferences
  • Step 2: Go to Maven –> Lifecycle Mappings
    • And then Click “Open workspace lifecycle mappings metadata” –> which will open “lifecycle-mapping-metadata.xml” file in Eclipse editor
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  • Step 3: Add below XML chunk to this file –> save the file
    • Finally click “Reload workspace lifecycle mappings metadata” to take effect of new changes in the working environment

pom.xml (partial)

&lt;pluginExecution>
	&lt;pluginExecutionFilter>
		&lt;groupId>org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons&lt;/groupId>
		&lt;artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId>
		&lt;goals>
			&lt;goal>wsimport&lt;/goal>
		&lt;/goals>
		&lt;versionRange>[0.0,)&lt;/versionRange>
	&lt;/pluginExecutionFilter>
	&lt;action>
		&lt;ignore />
	&lt;/action>
&lt;/pluginExecution>

Again this is specific to “wsimport” goal and it may vary depending on the plugins configured for our business requirements

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