Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration

Question

Beginner of Spring

Background : So far, i have been working on core JAVA and now i need to switch to MVC
Trying to make my first Spring MVC Hello World Example from this tutorial , i am getting below error on pom.xml:

Multiple annotations found at this line:
    - Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:
     2.3.2:compile (execution: default-compile, phase: compile)
    - Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:
     2.5:testResources (execution: default-testResources, phase: process-test-resources)
    - <packaging>war</packaging>
    - Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:
     2.5:resources (execution: default-resources, phase: process-resources)
    - Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:
     2.3.2:testCompile (execution: default-testCompile, phase: test-compile)

Error is generated on this line of pom.xml :

  <packaging>war</packaging>

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
      <groupId>com.javacodegeeks.snippets.enterprise</groupId>
      <artifactId>springexample</artifactId>
      <packaging>war</packaging>
      <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <name>springexample Maven Webapp</name>
      <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>junit</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
          <version>3.8.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
                <version>${spring.version}</version>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
                <version>${spring.version}</version>
            </dependency>
      </dependencies>
      <build>
        <finalName>springexample</finalName>
      </build>

        <properties>
            <spring.version>4.0.2.RELEASE</spring.version>
        </properties>
</project>

I even installed m2e after searching in marketplace

Please go easy, this question comes in as an attempt to learn something totally new to me.
Do i need some plugin or something to resolve this? If so, is there any universal kind of plugin to avoid any such future error?
IDE : Eclipse Kepler

P.S :

I have already browsed old threads but no luck :

• How to solve "Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration" for Spring Data Maven Builds

• Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration error in eclipse with pluginManagement in parent pom

Answer 1

That is no reason to stop using m2e, you can fix those errors by simply right-clicking them and using Quick Fix command. You will have the option to search for available lifecycle configurators in Marketplace to automatically handle it or, if there is none, you could tell m2e to ignore the plugin.