Maven-execution-plugin is not running when its enclosed in in pluginmanagement of pom.xml

[navakrishna]

Maven execution plugin is failing for below configuration if i enclose this plugin in pluginmanagement tag. How pluginmanagement works? Plugins execution works with and without pluginmanagement configuration. What is the difference in the execution if we use or don't?

org.codehaus.mojo exec-maven-plugin exec-npm-install generate-sources cmd ${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp/ngapp /c npm install exec exec-gulp generate-sources cmd ${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp/ngapp /c gulp build-all-prod exec

        **</pluginmanagement>**

[erijonhson]

Also with me:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <!-- ... ... --> 

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
  </properties>

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>in-project</id>
      <name>In Project Repo</name>
      <url>file://${project.basedir}/lib</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>jflex</groupId>
      <artifactId>jflex</artifactId>
      <version>1.6.1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>cup</groupId>
      <artifactId>java-cup</artifactId>
      <version>11b</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
          <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>1.2.1</version>
          <executions>
            <execution>
              <id>create-lexer</id>
              <phase>validate</phase>
              <configuration>
                <executable>java</executable>
                <workingDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/java/br/edu/ufcg/ccc</workingDirectory>
                <arguments>
                  <argument>-jar</argument>
                  <argument>${project.basedir}/lib/jflex/jflex/1.6.1/jflex-1.6.1.jar</argument>
                  <argument>-d</argument>
                  <argument>${project.basedir}/src/main/java/br/edu/ufcg/ccc</argument>
                  <argument>${project.basedir}/src/main/java/go.flex</argument>
                </arguments>
              </configuration>
              <goals>
                <goal>exec</goal>
              </goals>
            </execution>
            <execution>
              <id>create-parser-and-sym</id>
              <phase>validate</phase>
              <configuration>
                <executable>java</executable>
                <workingDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/java/br/edu/ufcg/ccc</workingDirectory>
                <arguments>
                  <argument>-jar</argument>
                  <argument>${project.basedir}/lib/cup/java-cup/11b/java-cup-11b.jar</argument>
                  <argument>-parser</argument>
                  <argument>Parser</argument>
                  <argument>-interface</argument>
                  <argument>-symbols</argument>
                  <argument>sym</argument>
                  <argument>${project.basedir}/src/main/java/go.cup</argument>
                </arguments>
              </configuration>
              <goals>
                <goal>exec</goal>
              </goals>
            </execution>
          </executions>
        </plugin>
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
  </build>

</project>

Just remove </pluginManagement> that works again, although it shows error in the pom.

[erijonhson]

https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/pom-error-plugin-execution-not-covered-by-lifecycle/

[jeacott1]

its not supposed to. pluginManagement is a template for actual plugin definitions.