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IllegalStateException: The PluginDescriptor for the plugin … was not found
14. April, 2008Ever saw this error?
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The PluginDescriptor for the plugin Plugin [org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin] was not found. at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.addPlugin(DefaultPluginManager.java:325) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyVersionedPlugin(DefaultPluginManager.java:212) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin(DefaultPluginManager.java:176) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1274) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.getMojoDescriptor(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1542) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.bindLifecycleForPackaging(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1033) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.constructLifecycleMappings(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:997) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:477) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:330) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:291) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:142) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:336) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
When you see this, check:
- That the JAR file of the plug-in is okay and that it contains a file META-INF/maven/plugin.xml
- That the pom.xml of the plug-in exists and is valid.
- That all parent POMs exist and are valid.
Good luck. I’ve opened this issue to get a better error message.