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

In my case of a similar problem, instead of using Andrew's suggestion for the fix, it worked simply after I introduced tag to the pom.xml in question. Looks like that error is due to a missing tag. So, in order to avoid the exceptions in Eclipse, one needs to simply enclose all the plugin tags inside a tag, like so:

    
        
             ... 
             ... 
                  ....
        
    

Once this structure is in place, the error goes away.