Re: what does it mean with this error when trying to run mvn eclipse:eclipse (Cannot find mojo descriptor for: 'eclipse:eclipse' - Treating as non-aggregator.)

[Rick R]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote:

> I'm quite sure you must have reconfigured something since last time it
> worked. The plugin exists in central, and for some reason your build isn't
> looking there.
>
> Run
> mvn help:effective-pom
> and find the <pluginRepositories> section and paste it in a reply.
>
>

<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </snapshots>
      <id>central</id>
      <url>http://internalcompanyURL:8081/artifactory/plugins-releases</url>
    </pluginRepository>
    <pluginRepository>
      <releases>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </releases>
      <id>snapshots</id>
      <url>http://internalcompanyURL:8081/artifactory/plugins-snapshots
</url>
    </pluginRepository>
    <pluginRepository>
      <releases />
      <snapshots />
      <id>codehaus-plugins</id>
      <url>http://dist.codehaus.org/</url>
      <layout>legacy</layout>
    </pluginRepository>
  </pluginRepositories>

Maybe something's screwed up with the internal artifactory repo?

Thanks so much for the help.

Also, you might want to consider locking the version of the plugin being
> used. You do that in the pluginManagement section. Currently I think you
> don't have a version specified, so Maven will try to get the latest
> (2.8-SNAPSHOT). That may cause issues when a new version is available,
> which
> isn't backwardscompatible for some reason. Or possibly you do have the
> version set to 2.8-SNAPSHOT? You can see that as well in the effective pom.
> http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Plugin_Management
> (In this case you only need to specify groupId, artifactId, and version.
> The
> latest released version is 2.7, which exists in central.)
>
> /Anders
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 22:32, Rick R <ric...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > running mvn eclipse:eclipse used to work.. now I'm getting...
> >
> > [INFO] Unable to find resource
> > 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin:maven-plugin:2.8-SNAPSHOT'
> > in
> > repository codehaus-plugins (http://dist.codehaus.org/)
> > [INFO] Cannot find mojo descriptor for: 'eclipse:eclipse' - Treating as
> > non-aggregator.
> >
> > I'm new to maven and stumped by what is going on?
> >
> > --
> > Rick R
> >
>



-- 
Rick R