Maven Unrecognised Tag: 'executions'

maven tags pom.xml execution
leventunver picture leventunver · Dec 19, 2014 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

The problem is simple. I added <executions></executions> tag in my pom.xml, however I got the below error:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).


Project ID: MyProject
POM Location: MyPOM

Reason: Parse error reading POM. Reason: Unrecognised tag: 'executions' (position: START_TAG seen ...</version>  \t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    <executions>... @2014:23)
for project MyProject

May it be caused by the version of Maven that I use? My Maven version is 2.1.0. I couldn't find when "executions" tag have been implemented. Without the "executions" tag everything is OK and I tried a few examples of code from the web but didn't work either. Any ideas?

Answer

ameen picture ameen · Dec 17, 2015 
   <executions> tag must be within the <build> </build> section

if your plugin not inside the main build section , move it there.

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