Re: [m2e-users] Maven plugin in workspace, "could not find goal"

[Igor Fedorenko <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

m2e is supposed to resolve the plugin from local repository and I am not aware of any bugs in this area. I suggest you double-check configuration of your project, things like versions between pom.xml and local repository match.

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Regards,
Igor

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, at 3:38 PM, Curtiss Howard wrote:
> Hi, I do actually have the plugin installed in my local repo and have 
> done  Maven > Update Project, Clean Projects, etc. and I still have this 
> error.  If it helps I'm using m2e 1.8.3.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Igor Fedorenko wrote:
> > Maven command line build is single pass start-to-finish kind of affair, 
> > so it is perfectly reasonable to build the plugin project first, then to 
> > use the plugin when building other projects, all during single multi-
> > module (aka reactor) build.
> > 
> > Eclipse incremental build is far more complex, where individual parts 
> > are executed to build the changed source files and all directly or 
> > indirectly affected sources. To make this work for Maven plugins we'd 
> > need to track everything that can possibly affect plugin's runtime 
> > behaviour, and force execution of the plugin whenever there is a change. 
> > This is either very hard or impossible, and certainly not implemented in 
> > m2e.
> > 
> > The workaround is to "mvn install" your plugin into local repository and 
> > force m2e update  configuration of projects using the plugin. Every time 
> > you make changes to the plugin.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Regards,
> > Igor
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Curtiss Howard wrote:
> > > I have a project containing a Maven plugin I wrote and another project 
> > > that uses it during the build.  It works fine when running Maven, but I 
> > > get the following error  (genericized) in Eclipse:
> > > 
> > > "Could not find goal '<goalName>' in plugin 
> > > <groupId>:<artifactId>:<version> among available goals help"
> > > 
> > > I saw someone had a similar issue last year and posted to the mailing 
> > > list about it: https://www.eclipse.org/lists/m2e-users/msg05688.html
> > > 
> > > The response is that m2e does not support this.  Fair enough, but then 
> > > why is m2e aware of the (generated) help goal and not my other goal?  
> > > I'm just wondering if there's a way to kill this error, either through 
> > > some Maven configuration (preferable) or Eclipse configuration 
> > > (acceptable).
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
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