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.
-- 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! > > > _______________________________________________ > > > m2e-users mailing list > > > m2e-users@eclipse.org > > > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > > > from this list, visit > > > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users > > _______________________________________________ > > m2e-users mailing list > > m2e-users@eclipse.org > > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > > from this list, visit > > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users > _______________________________________________ > m2e-users mailing list > m2e-users@eclipse.org > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users _______________________________________________ m2e-users mailing list m2e-users@eclipse.org To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users
