Public Talk: Quantum Computing (2nd Try)

14. April, 2008

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IllegalStateException: The PluginDescriptor for the plugin … was not found

14. April, 2008

Ever 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:

  1. That the JAR file of the plug-in is okay and that it contains a file META-INF/maven/plugin.xml
  2. That the pom.xml of the plug-in exists and is valid.
  3. That all parent POMs exist and are valid.

Good luck. I’ve opened this issue to get a better error message.


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